journey

[Jour·ney]

If you're looking for a more refined word to call your latest drive to the beach or trip to the mall, try journey a noun that describes travel from one place to another.

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The travel or work of a day.

Noun
the act of traveling from one place to another

Verb
undertake a journey or trip

Verb
travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"


n.
The travel or work of a day.

n.
Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.

v. i.
To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

v. t.
To traverse; to travel over or through.


Journey

Jour"ney , n.; pl. Journeys . [OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn'82e, jurn'82e, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journ'82e, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.] 1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] Chaucer.
We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey.
2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
The good man . . . is gone a long journey.
We must all have the same journey's end.
Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Journey

Jour"ney, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Journeyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying.] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Journey

Jour"ney, v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] "I journeyed many a land." Sir W. Scott.

The travel or work of a day.

To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

To traverse; to travel over or through.

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Usage Examples

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

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