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jour·ney

Audio Help [jur-nee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -neys, verb, -neyed, -ney·ing.

–noun

1.	a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.

2.	a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling: a desert journey.

3.	a period of travel: a week's journey.

4.	passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to success.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to make a journey; travel.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME journee day < OF < VL *diurnāta a day's time, day's work, etc., equiv. to L diurn(us) daily + -āta, fem. of -ātus -ate¹; see -ade¹

]

—Related forms

jour·ney·er, noun

—Synonyms 1. excursion, jaunt, tour. See trip. 5. roam, rove; peregrinate.

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jour·ney Audio Help (jûr'nē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. jour·neys

1. The act of traveling from one place to another; a trip.
2. A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip: a 2,000-mile journey to the Pacific; the three-day journey home.
A process or course likened to traveling; a passage: the journey of life.

v.   jour·neyed, jour·ney·ing, jour·neys

v.   intr.
To make a journey; travel.

v.   tr.
To travel over or through.

[Middle English journei, day, day's travel, journey, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, day, from neuter of Latin diurnus, of a day, from diēs, day; see diary.]

jour'ney·er n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
journey

c.1225, "a defined course of traveling," from O.Fr. journée "day's work or travel," from V.L. diurnum "day," noun use of neut. of L. diurnus "of one day" (see diurnal). As recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day." The verb is from c.1330. Journeyman (1424), "one who works by day," preserves the etymological sense. Its Amer.Eng. colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

journey
noun
1.	the act of traveling from one place to another
verb
1.	undertake a journey or trip [syn: travel]
2.	travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: travel]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
journey [ˈdʒəːni] noun

a distance travelled, especially over land; an act of travelling
Example: By train, it is a two-hour journey from here to the coast; I'm going on a long journey.

Arabic:	سَفْرَه، رِحْلَه
Chinese (Simplified):	旅程
Chinese (Traditional):	旅程
Czech:	cesta
Danish:	rejse; tur
Dutch:	reis
Estonian:	teekond
Finnish:	matka
French:	voyage, trajet
German:	die Reise
Greek:	ταξίδι, διαδρομή
Hungarian:	út; utazás
Icelandic:	ferðalag
Indonesian:	perjalanan
Italian:	viaggio

Japanese:	旅行
Korean:	여행
Latvian:	brauciens; ceļojums
Lithuanian:	kelionė
Norwegian:	reise
Polish:	podróż
Portuguese (Brazil):	viagem
Portuguese (Portugal):	viagem
Romanian:	călătorie
Russian:	поездка; путешествие
Slovak:	cesta
Slovenian:	potovanje
Spanish:	viaje
Swedish:	resa
Turkish:	yolculuk, seyahat

journey [ˈdʒəːni] verb

to travel

Arabic:	يُسافِر
Chinese (Simplified):	旅行
Chinese (Traditional):	旅行
Czech:	cestovat
Danish:	rejse
Dutch:	reizen
Estonian:	reisima
Finnish:	matkustaa
French:	voyager
German:	reisen
Greek:	ταξιδεύω
Hungarian:	utazik
Icelandic:	ferðast
Indonesian:	bepergian
Italian:	viaggiare

Japanese:	旅行する
Korean:	여행하다
Latvian:	ceļot
Lithuanian:	keliauti
Norwegian:	reise
Polish:	podróżować
Portuguese (Brazil):	viajar
Portuguese (Portugal):	viajar
Romanian:	a călători
Russian:	путешествовать
Slovak:	cestovať
Slovenian:	potovati
Spanish:	viajar
Swedish:	resa
Turkish:	yolculuk, *seyahat etmek

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Journey

Ad*journ\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning.] [OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey.] To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. --Barrow.

'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. --Shak.

Syn: To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend.

Usage: To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Journey

De"i*ty\, n.; pl. Deities. [OE. deite, F. d['e]it['e], fr. L. deitas, fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. di^os divine, Zey`s, gen. Dio`s, Zeus, Skr. d[=e]va divine, as a noun, god, daiva divine, dy[=o] sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god, and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God, W. duw. Cf. Divine, Journey, Journal, Tuesday.]

1. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.

They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. --Milman.

2. A god or goddess; a heathen god.

To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. --Milton.

The Deity, God, the Supreme Being.

This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. --Addison.

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Journey

Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]

1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. --Milton.

They would make excursions and waste the country. --Holland.

2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

3. A wandering from a subject; digression.

I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. --Cowper.

4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Journey

(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex. 16:29. (See SABBATH.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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