# journey
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
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* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni

#### Noun

journey (plural journeys)
* A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
    The journey to London takes two hours by train.
** 1807, William Wordsworth, “Star Gazers”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 88:Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?
* (figurative) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
    the journey to political freedom
    my journey of dealing with grief
** 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
** 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
* (obsolete) A day.
* (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
* (obsolete) A day's work.
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
* (collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes.

##### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:journey

##### Derived terms

* a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
* memory journey
* Sabbath-day's journey
* wedding journey

##### Translations

Aghwan: 𐔴𐔾𐕒𐕡𐕎 (elun)
Albanian: udhëtim (sq) m
Arabic: رِحْلَة f (riḥla), سَفَر (ar) m (safar), سَيَاحَة f (sayāḥa), مُسَافَرَة f (musāfara)
Egyptian Arabic: رحلة f (reḥla), سفرية f (safareya)
Armenian: ուղեւորություն (hy) (uġeworutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: səfər (az), səyahət (az)
Basque: bidaia (eu)
Belarusian: пае́здка f (pajézdka), падаро́жжа n (padaróžža)
Bengali: যাত্রা (bn) (jatra)
Bulgarian: пъту́ване (bg) n (pǎtúvane), пътеше́ствие (bg) n (pǎtešéstvie)
Burmese: ခရီး (my) (hka.ri:)
Cebuano: panaw
Chichewa: ulendo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旅游 (zh) (lǚyóu), 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 旅途 (zh) (lǚtú), 旅程 (zh) (lǚchéng)
Czech: cesta (cs) f, výlet (cs) m
Danish: rejse (da) c
Dutch: trip (nl) f, trektocht (nl) f, reis (nl) f
Egyptian: (nmtt f)
Esperanto: vojaĝo (eo)
Estonian: reis (et)
Ewe: azɔlizɔzɔ
Finnish: matka (fi), reissu (fi)
French: voyage (fr) m
Galician: viaxe (gl) f
Georgian: მგზავრობა (mgzavroba), მოგზაურობა (mogzauroba), ტური (ṭuri), ვოიაჟი (voiaži)
German: Reise (de) f, Tour (de) f, Fahrt (de) f, Anreise (de) f
Greek: ταξίδι (el) n (taxídi)
Ancient: πορεία f (poreía)
Greenlandic: angalaneq
Hebrew: מַסָּע (he) m (masá)
Higaonon: panaw
Hindi: यात्रा (hi) f (yātrā), सफ़र (hi) m (safar)
Hiri Motu: laolao
Hungarian: utazás (hu)
Icelandic: leiðangur (is), ferð (is)
Ido: voyajo (io)
Indonesian: perjalanan (id)
Ingrian: matka
Interlingua: viage (ia)
Irish: aistear (ga) m or f, slí f
Italian: viaggio (it), itinerario (it) m, avventura (it) f
Japanese: 旅行 (ja) (りょこう, ryokō), 旅 (ja) (たび, tabi), ツアー (ja) (tsuā)
Kazakh: сапар (sapar), саяхат (saäxat)
Khmer: ដំណើរ (km) (dɑmnaə)
Korean: 여행(旅行) (ko) (yeohaeng), 려행(旅行) (ko) (ryeohaeng) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ger (ku), seyehat
Kyrgyz: саякат (ky) (sayakat), сапар (ky) (sapar)
Lao: ການເດີນທາງ (kān dœ̄n thāng)
Latin: iter (la) n, cursus m
Latvian: brauciens m, ceļojums m
Lithuanian: kelionė (lt) f
Macedonian: пату́вање n (patúvanje), патеше́ствие n (patešéstvie) (adventurous)
Malayalam: യാത്ര (ml) (yātra)
Mòcheno: roas f
Marathi: प्रवास m (pravās)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: аялал (mn) (ajalal)
Motu: laolao
Nepali: यात्रा (yātrā)
Norman: viage m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: reise (no) m or f
Old English: færeld n
Oromo: deemsa
Ottoman Turkish: یولجیلق (yolculuk)
Pannonian Rusyn: путованє n (putovanje)
Papiamentu: biahe
Pashto: سفر (ps) m (safar), سياحت (ps) m (sayāhat)
Persian:
Dari: سَفَر (safar), سِیَاحَت (siyāhat)
Iranian Persian: سَفَر (safar), سِیاحَت (siyâhat)
Plautdietsch: Reis f
Polish: podróż (pl) f, wyjazd (pl) m, wypad (pl) m (a short one)
Portuguese: jornada (pt) f, viagem (pt) f, percurso (pt) m
Romanian: voiaj (ro) n, călătorie (ro) f
Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n (putešéstvije), пое́здка (ru) f (pojézdka), турне́ (ru) n (turnɛ́), воя́ж (ru) m (vojáž)
Sanskrit: यात्रा (sa) (yātrā)
Scottish Gaelic: slighe f, cuairt f, turas m, taisteal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: путова́ње n
Roman: putovánje (sh) n
Slovak: cestovanie n, cesta (sk) f, výlet m
Slovene: potovanje (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jězd m
Spanish: viaje (es) m, jornada (es) f, viajata f (colloquial), trayecto (es) m, singladura (es) f (especially a nautical day), asengladura f (nautical day), periplo (es) m
Swahili: safari (sw)
Swedish: resa (sv) c, färd (sv) c
Tajik: сафар (tg) (safar), сайёҳат (sayyohat)
Tatar: сәяхәт (tt) (säyaxät)
Telugu: ప్రయాణము (te) (prayāṇamu)
Thai: การเดินทาง (th) (gaan-dəən-taang)
Tibetan: འགྲུལ་བཞུད ('grul bzhud)
Tocharian B: yalñe
Tumbuka: ulendo
Turkish: yolculuk (tr), gezi (tr), seyahat (tr)
Turkmen: syýahat, sapar
Ukrainian: пої́здка f (pojízdka), по́дорож (uk) f (pódorož)
Urdu: سَفَر m (safar), سِیاحَت f (siyāhat)
Uyghur: سەپەر (seper), ساياھەت (ug) (sayahet)
Uzbek: sayohat (uz), safar (uz)
Venetan: viàjo
Vietnamese: cuộc hành trình (vi)
Volapük: täv (vo)
Welsh: taith (cy) f, siwrnai (cy) f
White Hmong: tawm rooj
Yiddish: רייַזע f (rayze)
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#### Verb

journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)
* To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
** 1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.

##### Synonyms

* wayfare

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* “journey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “journey”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “journey”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Etymology 2

Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni

#### Noun

journey (plural journeys)
* (glassblowing) The total time spent melting and working one piece.

## Middle English
### Noun

journey
* Alternative form of journe