journeynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʒɜː.ni/us/ˈdʒɝː.ni/A2 the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle:
I love going on long journeys.
We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Jacksonville before travelling on to Miami the next day.
Have a safe journey!
figurative He views his life as a spiritual journey towards a greater understanding of his faith.
mainly UK Did you have a good journey?
mainly UK It's a two-hour train journey from York to London.
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trip noun
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- She gave the children some sweets to chew on during the long car journey.
- The journey was quite quick because the road was clear .
- I expect you'd like to rest after your long journey.
- We did the journey to Wales in five hours.
- The train journey took us through a valley past rolling hills.
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Journeys
- adventure
- break-journey
- carpool
- carsick
- convoy
- field trip
- flight
- foray
- grand tour
- mystery tour
- odyssey
- outward-bound
- peregrination
- pilgrimage
- ride
- round trip
- sail
- short-haul
- the long haul idiom
- trip
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journeyverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈdʒɜː.ni/us/ˈdʒɝː.ni/literaryto travel somewhere:
As we journeyed south, the landscape became drier and rockier.
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Travelling
- backpacking
- bum around (somewhere)
- catch
- connect
- cover
- cruise
- destination
- gad about/around (somewhere)
- gallivant
- have sth, will travel idiom
- override
- ply
- road
- roam
- tootle
- tourist class
- travel
- travelled
- voyage
- well travelled
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