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jour⋅ney

  [jur-nee] noun, plural -neys, verb, -neyed, -ney⋅ing.
Use journey in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME journee day < OF < VL *diurnāta a day's time, day's work, etc., equiv. to L diurn(us) daily + -āta, fem. of -ātus -ate 1 ; see -ade 1

Related forms:
jour⋅ney⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. excursion, jaunt, tour. See trip. 5. roam, rove; peregrinate.
jour·ney   (jûr'nē)   
n.   pl. jour·neys

    1. The act of traveling from one place to another; a trip.

    2. A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip: a 2,000-mile journey to the Pacific; the three-day journey home.

  2. A process or course likened to traveling; a passage: the journey of life.

v.   jour·neyed, jour·ney·ing, jour·neys

v.   intr.
To make a journey; travel.
v.   tr.
To travel over or through.

[Middle English journei, day, day's travel, journey, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, day, from neuter of Latin diurnus, of a day, from diēs, day; see diary.]
jour'ney·er n.
Word Origin & History

journey 
c.1225, "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 from c.1330. Journeyman (1424), "one who works by day," preserves the etymological sense. Its Amer.Eng. colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.
Bible Dictionary

Journey

(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex. 16:29. (See SABBATH.)

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