If someone tells you "bon voyage!" they mean have a good trip. Voyage means trip in French but in English, we use it to mean a long journey.
Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
Noun
a journey to some distant place
Noun
an act of traveling by water
Verb
travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"
n.
Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in
general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one
place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey
by water to a distant place or country.
n.
The act or practice of traveling.
n.
Course; way.
v. i.
To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
v. t.
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Voyage
I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.
So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds.
All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.2.
Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.3.
Voyage
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
Voyage
With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep.
Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Usage Examples
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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