journey
/ˈdʒəːni
/noun (plural journeys)
1An act of travelling from one place to another: an eight-hour train journey...
- The trip is marked down as a return journey, but it is not known when he went back to the capital.
- He was halfway through on his return journey when a light flicked on in the passageway.
- I bought a paper on the return journey last night and had a go at the crossword.
Synonyms
trip, expedition, period of travelling, tour, trek, voyage, cruise, safari, ride, drive, transfer;
crossing, passage, flight;
travels, wandering, roaming, roving, globetrotting;
odyssey, pilgrimage;
excursion, outing, jaunt
rare peregrination
1.1A long and often difficult process of personal change and development: her spiritual journey towards Roman Catholicism I was excited with my character’s journey in the film...
- His new book, Death by Meeting, is a journey into meeting hell.
- He travels out to Africa incognito to re-deliver the feathers personally: a perilous journey of redemption.
- Then he should have prepared his reader for the journey they were embarking upon.
verb (journeys, journeying, journeyed) [no object, with adverbial of direction]
Travel somewhere: they journeyed south...
- He traveled the world, and everywhere he journeyed, he offered help and kindness.
- These carriages journeyed on railways throughout the country and traveled to the most remote villages.
- But he has other reasons for journeying to a part of the world which he ‘loves everything about.’
Synonyms
travel, go, voyage, sail, cruise, fly, hike, trek, ride, drive, make one's way, wend one's way;
go on a trip, take a trip, go on an expedition, go on an excursion, go on a tour, tour, go on safari;
globetrot, backpack;
roam, rove, ramble, wander, meander
rare peregrinate
Derivatives
journeyer
- It was quickly and quietly that the two journeyers traveled to the Commons.
- For example, the only weapons the journeyers learned about were to catch their dinner.
- They also wanted to leave some for the other journeyers that would come along.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French jornee 'day, a day's travel, a day's work' (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum 'daily portion', from diurnus (see diurnal).