VOYAGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voyager mean? 

• VOYAGER (noun)
  The noun VOYAGER has 1 sense:

1. a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)

  Familiarity information: VOYAGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOYAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("voyager" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Derivation:

voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)

 Context examples 

Voyager also, for the first time, captured clear images of the ice giant's ring system, too faint to be clearly viewed from Earth.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Voyager also discovered atmospheric plumes on Triton, making it one of the known active bodies in the outer solar system, along with objects such as Jupiter's moon Io and Saturn's moon Enceladus.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched 16 days apart in 1977.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

Voyager scientists have been watching for the spacecraft to reach the outer boundary of the heliosphere, known as the heliopause.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

Voyager 1 and 2 were launched 16 days apart in 1977, and one of the spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Voyager's "eyes" saw in colors slightly different from human eyes, and this map was produced using orange, green and blue filter images.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

Voyager is the farthest human-made probe from Earth, and the first to enter the vast sea between stars.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

Voyager 1 now is the most distant human-made object, about 19 billion kilometers away from the sun.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)