journey
[jur-nee]
- a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling: a desert journey.
- a period of travel: a week's journey.
- passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to success.
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- to make a journey; travel.
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Origin of journey
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.
The next day, after driving to Putney on the outskirts of London, we start the end of our journey.
The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.
We began a journey with Koenig in the first episode of Serial.
Adnan Killed Her! No, Jay Did It! Serial’s Uncertain, True-to-Reality EndEmily Shire
December 18, 2014
And so it is with the stories of the migrants and refugees who make the journey.
Historical Examples
In accordance with the advice of Hippocrates, the journey to Olympia was undertaken.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
I doubt me whether the poor old hound will brook the journey.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
He is aged for such a journey, if you came from the Forest since morn.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
He had a large family at home waiting his return from a Western journey.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
In the private car the little party was beginning its own journey Eastward.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
journey
- a travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage
- the distance travelled in a journey
- the time taken to make a journey
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- (intr) to make a journey
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French journee a day, a day's travelling, from Latin diurnum day's portion; see diurnal
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Word Origin and History for journey
n.
c.1200, "a defined course of traveling; one's path in life," from Old French journee "day's work or travel" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin diurnum "day," noun use of neuter of Latin diurnus "of one day" (see diurnal). Meaning "act of traveling by land or sea" is c.1300. In Middle English it also meant "a day" (c.1400); a day's work (mid-14c.); "distance traveled in one day" (mid-13c.), and as recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day."
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v.
mid-14c., "travel from one place to another," from Anglo-French journeyer, Old French journoier, from journee (see journey (n.)). Related: Journeyed; journeying.
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