JOURNEY


Meaning of JOURNEY in English

noun ⇨ See also ↑ trip

ADJECTIVE

▪ long , marathon ( esp. BrE )

▪ short ( esp. BrE )

▪ outward ( esp. BrE )

▪ homeward , return , round-trip ( AmE )

▪ onward ( esp. BrE )

The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward ~.

▪ bus , car , rail , train , etc. (all esp. BrE )

▪ five-mile , four-hour , etc.

▪ comfortable , easy , good , pleasant , safe (all esp. BrE )

Did you have a good ~?

Bye! Safe ~!

▪ arduous , difficult , gruelling/grueling ( esp. BrE ), hard , harrowing , tedious , terrible , tiring , tortuous ( BrE )

▪ dangerous , hazardous , perilous , treacherous

▪ overland

▪ cross-country

▪ daily ( esp. BrE )

▪ overnight

▪ epic

an epic ~ across Africa on foot

▪ amazing , fantastic , incredible

Her search took her on an incredible ~ across the world.

▪ wasted ( BrE )

The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted ~.

He wasn't there and we had a wasted ~.

▪ emotional , inner , intellectual , personal , sentimental , spiritual

He made the emotional ~ back to the house he grew up in.

The development of her poetry reflects her inner spiritual ~.

VERB + JOURNEY

▪ go on , have , make , undertake

Few people have made this ~ and lived to tell the tale.

▪ break ( BrE )

We broke our return ~ in Bangkok.

▪ begin , set out on

▪ continue , resume

They continued their ~ on foot.

▪ complete , finish

▪ survive

They doubted that he would survive the ~ to the nearest hospital.

▪ chart , chronicle , describe , recount

He wrote a column chronicling his ~s around the Americas.

JOURNEY + VERB

▪ take (sb)

His ~ took him across central Asia.

The ~ takes about five hours. ( BrE )

▪ begin

▪ end

▪ continue

The ~ continued in silence.

JOURNEY + NOUN

▪ time ( esp. BrE )

PREPOSITION

▪ on ~

They were on a ~ to the Far East.

▪ ~ by

a ~ by air, bus, land, sea, etc.

▪ ~ of

a ~ of 300 miles

a ~ of five days

▪ ~ across , ~ between , ~ through

▪ ~ from , ~ to

The ~ from London to Athens took 60 hours.

▪ ~ down , ~ up

the ~ down the Rhine

PHRASES

▪ be tired after a ~ , be tired from a ~

▪ a leg of a ~ , a stage of a ~

Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our ~.

▪ a ~ into the unknown

This is the story of the first astronauts and their ~ into the unknown.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .