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Journey   /dʒˈərni/   Listen
noun
Journey  n.  (pl. journeys)  
1.
The travel or work of a day. (Obs.) "We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey."
2.
Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. "The good man... is gone a long journey."
3.
Hence: (figurative), A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. "We must all have the same journey's end."
4.
The distance that is traveled in a journey (2), or the time taken to complete a journey (2); as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.
Synonyms: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.



verb
Journey  v. t.  To traverse; to travel over or through. (R.) "I journeyed many a land."



Journey  v. i.  (past & past part. journeyed; pres. part. journeying)  To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. "Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south."






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"Journey" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward obstinately, as they best might, with the hope of prey. They could spare their hundred thousand soldiers twice or thrice over, and not miss them; their masses filled the bottoms of the ravines and hollow ways, impeding the traveller as he rode forward on his journey, and trampled by thousands under his horse-hoofs. In vain was all this overthrow and waste by the road-side; in vain their loss in river, pool, and watercourse. The poor peasants hastily dug pits ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... to the time of Erasmus. This method is consistently carried out in the Greek classes. In 1853 he travelled in Greece, living in Athens for two months and a-half, and acquiring a fluent use of the living Greek language. On his return, he gave the results of his journey in various articles, especially in one in the North British on Modern Greek Literature, and in another in the Westminster on Greece. He also expressed some of them in an introductory lecture "On the Living Language of Greece." ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... all this region was terra incognita. In 1805, Lewis and Clarke passed through it; but beyond a liberal gift of geographical inaccuracies, they have left only a few venerable half-breeds as relics of their journey. Among the Indians, what they did and said has passed into tradition; and the tribes of which they speak, the Ke-heet-sas, Minnetarees, Hohilpoes, and Tus-he-pahs, are as extinct as the dodo. Later explorers have added little to the scanty stock of information, save interesting ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various

... behold thee for some time for gratifying my eyes.'—Suka, however, was indifferent to that request. Freed from affection and all doubt, he began to think only of Emancipation, and set his heart on the journey. Leaving his sire, that foremost of Rishis then proceeded to the spacious breast of Kailasa which was inhabited by crowds of ascetics crowned ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... them as she rode old Yellowjacket puffing up the grade, following the wagon marks, and knew that she was nearing the end of her journey,—for which Yellowjacket, she supposed, would be thankful. She had started not more than an hour later than her father, but the team had trotted along more briskly than her poor old nag would travel, so that she did not overtake her dad as she ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower


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