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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Hermeus, a hypersonic aircraft company, recently announced its move to El Segundo, joining aerospace companies such as True Anomaly and Voyager Technologies that recently opened plants in Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
It’s the first time Voyager has been selected for a trip to the orbiting laboratory.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
The brand also started selling a cheaper version of the Pacifica, called the Voyager.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Voyager 2 needed more than nine and a half years just to fly past the planet, without attempting to enter orbit.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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