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noun
1.
a course of travel or passage, especially 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.
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verb (used with object)
7.
to traverse by a voyage: to voyage the seven seas.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin viāticum travel-money; see viaticum
1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin viāticum travel-money; see viaticum
Related forms
voy·ag·er, noun
out·voy·age, verb (used with object), out·voy·aged, out·voy·ag·ing.
re·voy·age, noun, verb, re·voy·aged, re·voy·ag·ing.
un·voy·ag·ing, adjective
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Example Sentences
- Your journey could be an unbelievable cosmic voyage.
- We cannot know for sure how many boats have departed and been lost without trace during the voyage.
- So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage.
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Word Origin & History
voyage
c.1300, 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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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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