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voy·age (vo̵i′ij)

noun

  1. a relatively long journey or passage by water or, formerly, by land
  2. a journey by aircraft or spacecraft
  3. a written account of a voyage

Etymology: ME viage < OFr veiage, voyage < LL viaticum, a journey < L, traveling money, provision for a journey < viaticus, of a journey < via, way, journey: see via

intransitive verb voyaged -·aged, voyaging -·ag·ing

to make a voyage; travel

transitive verb

to sail or travel over or on

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voyage Synonyms

voyage

n.

tour, trip, excursion; see journey. See syn. study at trip.


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voyage Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • discovery: Enjoy garden history voyages of discovery, or relaxed ' Gardens & Golf ' holidays.

Converse of object

  • commence: In the early days of March the vessel left Vancouver commencing the return voyage to Europe.

Adjective modifier

  • maiden: On 16th February, 1870 she departed from London on her maiden voyage to Shanghai.

Modifies a noun

  • strategist: Itinerary our voyage voyage ace strategist we were off four seven-day fall.

Noun used with modifier

  • bon: Mine host the Kaimakam, standing by, wished us a hearty " bon voyage.
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voyage quotes

Voyager, c'est bien utile,  c° a fait travailler l'imagination. Tout le reste n'est que de¤  ceptions et fatigues. Notre voyage a'   nous est entie'  rement imaginaire.Voila'   sa force. To travel is useful. It engages the imagination. Everything else is deceitful and boring.Our own voyage is entirely imaginary. And therein lies its force.

-Destouches

Sothat finding myself at present inorabout onehundred and twenty degrees off east longitude from England, it bred in me a desire to proceed on the same easterly course till I had ended where I began, and so to have once made one circle round the globe of the earth, which would have been a voyage of voyages.

-Mundy, Peter

Civilisation is a movement and not a condition; a voyage and not a harbour.

-Toynbee, Arnold Joseph

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