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voy·age

Audio Help [voi-ij] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -aged, -ag·ing.

–noun

1.	a course of travel or passage, esp. a long journey by water to a distant place.

2.	a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.

3.	a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

4.	Often, voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself: the voyages of Marco Polo.

5.	Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

–verb (used with object)

7.	to traverse by a voyage: to voyage the seven seas.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME ve(i)age, viage, voyage < AF, OF < L viāticum travel-money; see viaticum

]

—Related forms

voy·ag·er, noun

—Synonyms 1. cruise. See trip¹.

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voy·age Audio Help (voi'ĭj) Pronunciation Key
n.

A long journey to a foreign or distant place, especially by sea.
1. The events of a journey of exploration or discovery considered as material for a narrative. Often used in the plural.
2. Such a narrative.

v.   voy·aged, voy·ag·ing, voy·ag·es

v.   intr.
To make a voyage.

v.   tr.
To sail across; traverse: voyaged the western ocean.

[Middle English, from Old French veyage, from Late Latin viāticum, a journey, from Latin, provisions for a journey, from neuter of viāticus, of a journey, from via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

voy'ag·er n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
voyage (n.)

1297, from O.Fr. veiage "travel, journey," from L.L. viaticum "a journey" (in classical L. "provisions for a journey"), noun use of neut. of viaticus "of or for a journey," from via "road, journey, travel." The verb is first attested 1477.

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voyage
noun
1.	an act of traveling by water [syn: ocean trip]
2.	a journey to some distant place
verb
1.	travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

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voyage [ˈvoiidʒ] noun

a usually long journey, especially by sea
Example: The voyage to America used to take many weeks.

Arabic:	رِحْلَه
Chinese (Simplified):	航海, 航程
Chinese (Traditional):	航海, 航程
Czech:	plavba
Danish:	rejse
Dutch:	reis
Estonian:	(mere)reis
Finnish:	matka
French:	traversée
German:	die (See-)Reise
Greek:	(θαλάσσιο) ταξίδι
Hungarian:	hajóút
Icelandic:	(langt) ferðalag (sjóferð)
Indonesian:	pelayaran
Italian:	viaggio

Japanese:	航海
Korean:	항해, 항행
Latvian:	jūras ceļojums
Lithuanian:	kelionė (jūra)
Norwegian:	(sjø)reise
Polish:	podróż morska
Portuguese (Brazil):	viagem
Portuguese (Portugal):	viagem
Romanian:	călătorie (pe mare)
Russian:	путешествие
Slovak:	plavba
Slovenian:	potovanje, plovba
Spanish:	viaje, travesía
Swedish:	resa, färd
Turkish:	deniz, *uzay yolculuğu

voyage [ˈvoiidʒ] verb

to make such a journey
Example: They voyaged for many months.

Arabic:	يقومُ بِرِحْلَه
Chinese (Simplified):	航行，旅行
Chinese (Traditional):	航行，旅行
Czech:	plavit se
Danish:	rejse
Dutch:	reizen
Estonian:	(merel) reisima
Finnish:	matkustaa
French:	voyager (par mer)
German:	(zu See) reisen
Greek:	ταξιδεύω
Hungarian:	hajózik
Icelandic:	ferðast (sjóleiðis); sigla
Indonesian:	berlayar
Italian:	viaggiare

Japanese:	航海する
Korean:	항해하다, 항행하다
Latvian:	ceļot, *braukt (pa jūru, ar lidmašīnu)
Lithuanian:	keliauti (jūra)
Norwegian:	reise
Polish:	płynąć statkiem
Portuguese (Brazil):	viajar
Portuguese (Portugal):	viajar
Romanian:	a călători (pe mare)
Russian:	путешествовать
Slovak:	plaviť sa
Slovenian:	potovati
Spanish:	viajar
Swedish:	resa, färdas
Turkish:	yolculuk etmek

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

Voyage

Con*vey"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Conveying.] [OF. conveir, convoier, to escort, convoy, F. convoyer, LL. conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. Convoy.]

1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

I will convey them by sea in fleats. --1 Kings v. 9.

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. --Shak.

2. To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

3. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. --Spenser.

4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. --Locke.

5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.]

I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. --Shak.

6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [Obs.]

7. To accompany; to convoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Syn: To carry; transport; bear; transmit; trnsfer.

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Voyage

En"voy\, n. [F. envoy['e] envoy, fr. envoyer to send; pref. en- (L. in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy (in sense 2). See Voyage, and cf. Invoice.]

1. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

2. [F. envoi, fr. envoyer to send.] An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.

The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. --Skeat.

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Voyage

Im*per"vi*ous\, a. [L. impervius; pref. im- not + per through + via way. See Voyage.] Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.

This gulf impassable, impervious. --Milton.

The minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious. --Macaulay.

Syn: Impassable; pathless; impenetrable; imperviable; impermeable. -- Im*per"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*per"vi*ous*ness, n.

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