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Voyaging

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voy⋅age

  [voi-ij] noun, verb, -aged, -ag⋅ing.
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–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 trip 1 .
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voy·age   (voi'ĭj)   
n.  

  1. 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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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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