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voyage

[ voi-ij ]

noun

  1. a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

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  2. a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.
  3. a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.
  4. Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself:

    the voyages of Marco Polo.

  5. Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.


verb (used without object)

voyaged, voyaging.
  1. to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object)

voyaged, voyaging.
  1. to traverse by a voyage:

    to voyage the seven seas.

voyage

/ ˈɔɪɪ /

noun

  1. a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air
  2. obsolete.
    an ambitious project
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to travel over or traverse (something)

    we will voyage to Africa

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzⲹ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • Dza· noun
  • dzܳvDza verb (used with object) outvoyaged outvoyaging
  • ·Dza noun verb revoyaged revoyaging
  • ܲ·Dza·Բ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of voyage1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin پܳ “t-DzԱ”; viaticum
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Word History and Origins

Origin of voyage1

C13: from Old French veiage, from Latin پܳ provision for travelling, from پܲ concerning a journey, from via a way
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Idioms and Phrases

see maiden voyage .
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Synonym Study

See trip 1.
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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The fee will be applied once per voyage on affected ships and not more than five times a year.

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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.

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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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