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voyage
[ voi-ij ]
noun
- a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
Synonyms: cruise
- 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)
- to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.
verb (used with object)
- to traverse by a voyage:
to voyage the seven seas.
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
- ˈvoyager, noun
Other Words From
- voyag·er noun
- outvoyage verb (used with object) outvoyaged outvoyaging
- re·voyage noun verb revoyaged revoyaging
- un·voyag·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of voyage1
Idioms and Phrases
see maiden voyage .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The preserve is such hardy stuff, in fact, that Christopher Columbus packed it alongside salt cod and hardtack on his transatlantic voyages.
Other data do suggest that ancient humans could have deliberately made the voyage to the Ryukyu Islands.
It is unlikely that ancient mariners would have set out on an ocean voyage with a major storm on the horizon, say paleoanthropologist Yousuke Kaifu of the University of Tokyo and colleagues.
Days after the Diamond Princess evacuation, a ship from the same company, the Grand Princess, set sail from San Francisco on another ill-fated voyage.
A statue of its namesake explorer stands in the lobby, near a chart of Cook’s voyages.
It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.
People might be surprised that during that period “Maiden Voyage,” one of your most well-loved standards, began as a TV jingle.
It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.
The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.
The voyage is a new one, certainly for Tambor, but also for Hollywood, in many ways.
Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.
I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.
The Swedish boatswain consoled him, and he modified his opinions as the voyage went on.
Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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