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voyage
[voi-ij]
noun
a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
Synonyms:a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.
a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.
Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself.
the voyages of Marco Polo.
Obsolete.an enterprise or undertaking.
verb (used without object)
to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.
verb (used with object)
to traverse by a voyage.
to voyage the seven seas.
voyage
/ ˈɔɪɪ /
noun
a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air
obsoletean ambitious project
verb
to travel over or traverse (something)
we will voyage to Africa
Other Word Forms
- voyager noun
- outvoyage verb (used with object)
- revoyage noun
- unvoyaging adjective
- ˈDzⲹ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of voyage1
Idioms and Phrases
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Last month, HMS Prince of Wales - one of the Navy's two aircraft carriers – left Portsmouth on an eight-month voyage to the other side of the world.
He died of yellow fever during a voyage to the Caribbean, and Cassandra never married.
Some 50 people died on the voyage, many of whom were lied to by people smugglers promising safe and legal routes to Europe.
Writing two weeks after the much-derided Blue Origin voyage, which saw her take an 11-minute flight with five other women, the US star said the "online world" had tried to make her a "human Piñata".
Once completed, the journey between Rødbyhavn in southern Denmark and Puttgarten in northern Germany, will take just 10 minutes by car, or seven minutes by train, replacing a 45-minute ferry voyage.
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