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journeying

[jur-nee] Origin

jour·ney

[jur-nee] 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.

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Journeying is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English journee day < Old French < Vulgar Latin *diurnāta a day's time, day's work, etc., equivalent to Latin diurn(us) daily + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate1; see -ade1

jour·ney·er, noun
out·jour·ney, verb (used with object), -neyed, -ney·ing.


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

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journey
early 13c., "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
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from early 14c. Journeyman (early 15c.), "one who works by day," preserves the etymological sense. Its Amer.Eng. colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.
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