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JOURNEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does journey mean?
• JOURNEY (noun)
The noun JOURNEY has 1 sense:
1. the act of traveling from one place to another
Familiarity information: JOURNEY used as a noun is very rare.
• JOURNEY (verb)
The verb JOURNEY has 2 senses:
1. undertake a journey or trip
2. travel upon or across
Familiarity information: JOURNEY used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of traveling from one place to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
journey; journeying
Hypernyms ("journey" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Meronyms (parts of "journey"):
leg; stage (a section or portion of a journey or course)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "journey"):
drive; ride (a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile))
way (a journey or passage)
voyage (a journey to some distant place)
excursion; expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay (a journey taken for pleasure)
pilgrim's journey; pilgrimage (a journey to a sacred place)
circuit; tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)
trek (a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers))
schlep; shlep (a tedious or difficult journey)
expedition (a journey organized for a particular purpose)
passage; transit (a journey usually by ship)
trip (a journey for some purpose (usually including the return))
odyssey (a long wandering and eventful journey)
mush (a journey by dogsled)
long haul (a journey over a long distance)
commute (a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work)
digression; excursion (wandering from the main path of a journey)
Derivation:
journey (undertake a journey or trip)
journey (travel upon or across)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it journeys Past simple: journeyed
Past participle: journeyed
-ing form: journeying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undertake a journey or trip
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
journey; travel
Hypernyms (to "journey" is one way to...):
jaunt; travel; trip (make a trip for pleasure)
Verb group:
journey; travel (travel upon or across)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "journey"):
globe-trot (travel all over the world for pleasure and sightseeing)
trek (journey on foot, especially in the mountains)
trek (make a long and difficult journey)
navigate; sail; voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)
sledge (ride in or travel with a sledge)
tour (make a tour of a certain place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
journey (the act of traveling from one place to another)
journeyer (a traveler going on a trip)
journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Travel upon or across
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
journey; travel
Context example:
travel the oceans
Hypernyms (to "journey" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Verb group:
journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "journey"):
sail (traverse or travel on (a body of water))
ship (travel by ship)
ride (ride over, along, or through)
fly (travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft)
cruise (drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
journey (the act of traveling from one place to another)
journeyer (a traveler going on a trip)
Context examples
"My journey is closed," I thought to myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of personal equipment he either had none or he had lost it in his journey.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These planets move very slowly—Neptune takes 165 years to revolve around the Sun, and Jupiter takes 12 years to make the same journey.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
And so, with Toto trotting along soberly behind her, she started on her journey.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When we came to our journey’s end, the king thought proper to pass a few days at a palace he has near Flanflasnic, a city within eighteen English miles of the seaside.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Journeys, London, servants, horses, table—contractions and restrictions every where!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Well, continued her philosophic mother, I am glad I did not know of your journey at the time; but now it is all over, perhaps there is no great harm done.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Your letter home has been despatched; to-morrow I shall not be here, but all shall be ready for your journey.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Wouldn't you go a day's journey, if you were in my place?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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