voyage
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ɪdʒ 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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voyage (ˈvɔɪɪdʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air |
| 2. | obsolete an ambitious project |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to travel over or traverse (something): we will voyage to Africa |
| [C13: from Old French veiage, from Latin viāticum provision for travelling, from viāticus concerning a journey, from via a way] | |
| 'voyager | |
| —n | |
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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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Journey into the depths of outer space in this five-disc voyage throughout the cosmos.
As a ship's voyage progressed, the course came to be marked down in a book that was called a log.
On this creative and intelligently designed voyage, the theme was evolution.
No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
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