voyage

American  

[voi-ij] / ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ /

noun

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

   Synonyms:

   cruise

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

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

4. Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself.

   the voyages of Marco Polo.

5. Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.

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verb (used without object)

voyaged, voyaging

1. to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object)

voyaged, voyaging

1. to traverse by a voyage.

   to voyage the seven seas.

voyage British  

/ ˈvɔɪɪdʒ /

noun

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

2. obsolete an ambitious project

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verb

1. to travel over or traverse (something)

   we will voyage to Africa

voyage Idioms  

1. see maiden voyage.

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Related Words

See trip ¹.

Other Word Forms

• outvoyage verb (used with object)
• revoyage noun
• unvoyaging adjective
• voyager noun

Etymology

Origin of voyage

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin viāticum “travel-money”; viaticum

Example Sentences

Experts told BBC Verify that the US called the ship Bella 1 as a vessel cannot change its flag during a voyage unless there was a real transfer of ownership or change of registry.

From BBC

In 2025, Chinese container ships completed 14 voyages through the Northern Sea Route along Russia’s Arctic coast, up from seven in 2023.

From MarketWatch

Information gathered on Chinese Arctic voyages enables its scientists to build computer models of undersea conditions, which its navy can later tap to plot routes allowing them to operate more freely in the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This voyage reconnects the past with the present," Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan said, flagging the ship off from Porbandar, in India's western state of Gujarat, on an estimated two-week crossing to the Arabian Peninsula.

From Barron's

The most dangerous part of the Zhen Hua 29’s voyage was around the Cape of Good Hope.

From The Wall Street Journal