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journey Definition

jour·ney (jʉr)

noun pl. -·neys

  1. the act or an instance of traveling from one place to another; trip
  2. any course or passage from one stage or experience to another

Etymology: ME journee < OFr < VL *diurnata, day's journey, day's work < LL diurnum, a daily portion < L diurnus, daily < dies, day: see deity

intransitive verb -·neyed, -·ney·ing

to go on a trip; travel to journey through France on a motorbike

journey Related Forms
jour·neyer noun
journey Synonyms

journey

n.

transit, passage, trip, tour, excursion, wayfaring, jaunt, pilgrimage, saunter, voyage, junket, package tour, crossing, expedition, odyssey, range, patrol, beat, sally, venture, adventure, itinerary, course, route, circuit, Grand Tour, peregrination, ramble, wandering, Wanderjahr (German), traverse, traversal, visit, sojourn, traveling, travels, campaign, trek, hegira, migration, caravan, transmigration, roaming, quest, safari, exploration, vagabondage, vagrancy, round, stroll, run, tramp, hike, promenade, constitutional, turn, airing, outing, drive, march, picnic, jog, prowl, look, survey, setting forth, crusade, perambulation, cruise, flight, sail, navigation, circumnavigation of the globe, nonstop flight, mission, ride; see also travel 1, walk 3. See syn. study at trip.

journey Synonyms

journey

v.

travel, tour, jaunt, take a trip; see travel 2.

journey Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • begin: This year we begin that journey by focusing on " Young People: Employees of the Future " .
  • commute: It will not be necessary for employees to offset any savings they make through not undertaking their ordinary commuting journey.
  • undertake: The Far People Space Station has up until now undertaken journeys within China.

Preposition: through

  • landscape.: Robin Noble, a talented writer and environmentalist, takes the reader on a unique journey through the fertile landscape. of North West Scotland.

Adjective modifier

  • homeward: Early afternoon we rejoin the coach for the homeward journey.
  • spiritual: This person must be someone who is further along o n the spiritual journey.
  • long: RAC Route Planner Plan short or long journeys in the UK or across Europe.. .
  • arduous: These long and arduous journeys across Europe can last many days, causing terrible suffering to these sensitive and intelligent animals.
  • short: Many can cut their overall journey times by up to 30 % , even on short journeys.
  • onward: Presumably this saves money on the onward journey to Kings Lynn.

Modifies a noun

  • planner: Integration of a number of journey planners is also an issue.

Noun used with modifier

  • epic: The first mention of this epic journey appears in the Gospel of St. Matthew where he tells of The Magi bearing gifts.
  • return: On the return journey the bus will be parked inside the school campus at the Senior School.
  • train: I can remember a train journey back from London one day.
  • missionary: He also traveled to Norway in 1853 and 1860 on Quaker missionary journeys.
  • rail: One ticket gets your rail journey plus unlimited bus travel at either end of your journey.
  • bus: There is a 5 min transfer bus journey which will drop you right in front of the terminal.

Preposition: of

  • self-discovery: The three Degrees of Masonry are like symbolic rehearsals for those major initiations that we must all take on our journey of self-discovery.
  • discovery: Everyone will enjoy a classic Whiskey Sour on arrival and then experience a journey of discovery through the world of whiskey.
  • exploration: An emerging church in Manchester engaged in a journey of creative exploration into spirituality, culture and faith.
journey Quotes

   A Long Day's Journey Into Night.

—O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone

   I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

—Swift,Jonathan

Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey.

—Lloyd, Henry Demarest

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough, now,O L, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

—Dryden,John

   You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

—Gellhorn, Martha Ellis

   The beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la'   qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne¤  , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a"  ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.

—Bellay,Joachim du

No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.

—Mills, C(harles) Wright

A man who, until he made the journey from London, thought that woad began at Watford.

—Talbot, Godfrey Walker

A journey is like a marriage. The certainway to be wrong is to think you control it.

—Steinbeck,John Ernest

These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so faron in their journey of life, bya religious sense of duty and desire to do right.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che¤   la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.

—Dante Alighieri originally Durante

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

—Lauder, Sir Harry (Hugh MacLennan)

Mi advise to them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurneyov life, istu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.

—Billings,Josh pseudonym of  Henry Wheeler Shaw

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

   Never before had I embarked on a journey that required courage.

—Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit And the long journey towards oblivion† Have you built your ship of death,O have you?

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be wakened.

—Bible (Old Testament)

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.We go on a journeychiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much moretoget rid of others.It is because I want a little breathing space to muse on different matters†that I absent myself from thetown for a while.

—Marples, Morris

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

To journey is better than to arriveöor so say those who have already arrived.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

This is the prospect from the watershed, and when the traveller reaches it, it is a good thing to take an hour's leisure and lookout on the visible portions of the journey, since never in one's life can one seethe same view twice.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I well this journey be his, and the honoure thereof. 300

—Edward III

Whenever I prepare fora journey I prepare as though for death. Should Ineverreturn, all isinorder.Thisiswhat life has taught me.

—Beauchamp

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

—Andrewes, Lancelot

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