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VOYAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does voyage mean?
• VOYAGE (noun)
The noun VOYAGE has 2 senses:
1. an act of traveling by water
2. a journey to some distant place
Familiarity information: VOYAGE used as a noun is rare.
• VOYAGE (verb)
The verb VOYAGE has 1 sense:
1. travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
Familiarity information: VOYAGE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of traveling by water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
ocean trip; voyage
Hypernyms ("voyage" is a kind of...):
seafaring; water travel (travel by water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voyage"):
cruise; sail (an ocean trip taken for pleasure)
maiden voyage (the first voyage of its kind)
Derivation:
voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A journey to some distant place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("voyage" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voyage"):
crossing (a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean))
space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight (a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere)
Derivation:
voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it voyages Past simple: voyaged
Past participle: voyaged
-ing form: voyaging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
Hypernyms (to "voyage" is one way to...):
journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "voyage"):
astrogate (navigate in space)
cruise (sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing)
Sentence frames:
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Derivation:
voyage (a journey to some distant place)
voyage (an act of traveling by water)
voyager (a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea))
Context examples
There we saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told us of his voyage.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I forget now where they chiefly went, but I think there were some among them that made voyages both to the East and West Indies.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Nothing, really, except that on a long space voyage conserving every drop of water might be crucial.
(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And that's why I'm going to sea one more voyage.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A little rope-work, sail-making, and experience with storms and such things, and by the end of the voyage you could ship on any coasting schooner.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
No matter—a girl of your sense will not object to the voyage or the distance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The voyage came to an end.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I was a month in this voyage.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Yes, it was her first voyage—she had never been from home before.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He says he feels as if he 'could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for ballast'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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