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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:
- 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
/ ˈɔɪɪ /
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
- ˈDzⲹ, noun
Other Word Forms
- Dza· noun
- dzܳvDza verb (used with object) outvoyaged outvoyaging
- ·Dza noun verb revoyaged revoyaging
- ܲ·Dza·Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of voyage1
Idioms and Phrases
see maiden voyage .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Once completed, the journey between Rødbyhavn in southern Denmark and Puttgarten in northern Germany, will take just 10 minutes by car, or seven minutes by train, replacing a 45-minute ferry voyage.
Mr Wood, who normally lives on the boat with his fiancée and two young children, encountered his first hiccup right at the beginning of his voyage.
The fee will be applied once per voyage on affected ships and not more than five times a year.
Distress ensues when these savior suitors, who are bound for a yearlong voyage, fail to show up at the appointed hour to bid the ladies farewell.
My time in Sacramento bookended the voyage, and I got the chance to fall in love with the city in a way that I rarely do when I visit someplace for the first time.
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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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