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voy⋅age

[voi-ij]

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

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Language Translation for : Voyage

Spanish:

viaje, travesía,

German:

die (See-)Reise,

Japanese:

航海

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voy·age (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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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

see maiden voyage.

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Voyage

Voy"age\ (?; 48), n. [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.]

1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.

I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. --J. Fletcher.

So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. --Milton.

All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. --Shak.

2. The act or practice of traveling. [Obs.]

Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. --Bacon.

3. Course; way. [Obs.] --Shak.

Voyage

Voy"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Voyaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Voyaging.] [Cf. F. voyager.] To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. --Wordsworth.

Voyage

Voy"age\, v. t. To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. --Milton.