voyage

[ voi-ij ]

/ ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ /

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noun

a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.

a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself: the voyages of Marco Polo.

Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.

verb (used without object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

to traverse by a voyage: to voyage the seven seas.

Origin of voyage

1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin viāticum travel-money; see viaticum

SYNONYMS FOR voyage

1 cruise. See trip¹.

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OTHER WORDS FROM voyage

voy·ag·er, noun out·voy·age, verb (used with object), out·voy·aged, out·voy·ag·ing. re·voy·age, noun, verb, re·voy·aged, re·voy·ag·ing. un·voy·ag·ing, adjective

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voyager voyageur

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Lennon later described the voyage as “the most fantastic experience I ever had”.

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Yet, on the voyage of seven weeks we buried forty-seven, or nearly one every day.

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One of the Dutch vessels captured was to go as almiranta; but it did not make the voyage, as it was unseaworthy.

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A voyage to the Pacific was a very different thing in the year 1800, however, from what it is to-day.

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The house being empty, she procured the keys from the landlord, and proceeded on a voyage of discovery alone.

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British Dictionary definitions for voyage

voyage

/ (ˈvɔɪɪdʒ) /

noun

a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air

obsolete an ambitious project

verb

to travel over or traverse (something) we will voyage to Africa

Derived forms of voyage

voyager, noun

Word Origin for voyage

C13: from Old French veiage, from Latin viāticum provision for travelling, from viāticus concerning a journey, from via a way

Idioms and Phrases with voyage

voyage

see maiden voyage.

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voyage

noun

verb (used without object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

verb (used with object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

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noun

verb

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voyage

noun

verb (used without object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

verb (used with object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

Origin of voyage

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