journey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: journeys
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The journey to London takes two hours by train.
text: “Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb
text: Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, “Star Gazers”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
examples: text: the journey to political freedom
text: my journey of dealing with grief
text: 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.
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
glosses: Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
glosses: A day.
glosses: A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
glosses: A day's work.
glosses: The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
glosses: A group of giraffes.
Synonyms: word: fare
word: journey
word: sith
word: trip
Hyponyms: word: constitutional
word: course
word: drive
word: excursion
word: exodus
word: expedition
word: flight
word: hegira
word: hike
word: jaunt
word: outing
word: peregrination
word: pilgrimage
word: raik
word: ramble
word: ride
word: tab
word: tour
word: tramp
word: travel
word: trek
word: trudge
word: voyage
word: walk
word: wayfare
word: yomp
Meronyms: word: departure
word: launch
word: outset
word: takeoff
word: change
word: landfall
word: leg
word: passage
word: stage
word: final approach
word: home straight
word: home stretch
word: arrival
Derived terms: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
journeyer
journeylike
journeyman
journeyperson
journeywoman
journeywork
memory journey
microjourney
outjourney
Sabbath-day's journey
wedding journey
Related terms: word: move
word: vehicle