Voyager
Americannoun
noun
Explanation
A voyager is someone who goes on a long trip, especially if he travels in a ship. Historically, voyagers have often been explorers. A voyage is a long trip to a faraway land, and people who go on voyages are called voyagers. You're most likely to find this word describing sea travelers, like the explorers Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. Because of its association with long, uncertain journeys, the word voyager has often been used for naming spaceships in science fiction and real life. Voyager has a Latin root, viaticum, which means "a journey."
Example Sentences
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The seed round was led by Voyager Ventures and included participation from Union Square Ventures and Buff Gold Ventures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
FTX and many other failed crypto platforms, like BlockFi and Voyager Digital, operated in the U.S. via subsidiaries with state money-transmitter licenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
One possible example is Triton, Neptune's largest moon, where NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft observed geysers erupting from the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Star Trek has produced many TV series and films since launching in the 1960s, including TV series The Next Generation, which starred Sir Patrick and Deep Space Nine and Voyager, which starred Kate Mulgrew.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
A television transmission that has just finished being aired will, in only a few hours, overtake the Voyager spacecraft in the region of Saturn and beyond and speed outward to the stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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