VOYAGE


Meaning of VOYAGE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

arduous journey/voyage

an arduous journey through the mountains

bon voyage

solo flight/voyage/ascent

Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the Atlantic

undertake a journey/voyage

You should not undertake a long journey if you are unwell.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

long

These were the first long voyages that were not marked by the scourge of scurvy.

We are on the way, but on a rather longer voyage than we knew.

We are merely entering the second stage of a long voyage with some of the flotsam discarded.

After a long voyage of two years' duration, he arrived in Canton ill 1669.

It sounds like a landfall you might make after a long and seasick voyage .

The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under.

He kept the shoulders stiff and he rolled a little, like a sailor back from a long voyage .

In five minutes, everyone he had been with on the long voyage over from Pompey was dead.

maiden

As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.

Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage .

Fifty-two years before I met him, Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

■ NOUN

ocean

Excellent condition for a big ocean voyage .

They'd played by the rules and made what was often an unpleasant ocean voyage that cost them most of their savings.

The international network, at least for the Western imperial system, added a long ocean voyage between two rail journeys.

What if Juan Miguel had taken the boy on a dangerous ocean voyage without telling Elizabeth.

Jack grinned and shook hands, looking like an ad for what an ocean voyage can do for the complexion.

sea

A strike this long is like a sea voyage .

In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.

The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under.

During the long sea voyage , Thomas Burns was seen as a leader in more than religious matters.

■ VERB

begin

To begin with the voyage seemed a form of evasive action, a form of flight.

Instead she began a 57-year voyage almost continuously in the public eye.

After a long refit, the Soren Larsen has begun a voyage to the other side of the world.

He had begun the voyage looking very young, barely in his early twenties.

Greenpeace began with a protest voyage into a nuclear test zone.

Antic sleuth work and a few serendipitous turns reward Garson with the leads necessary to begin her voyage .

The Hispaniola had begun her voyage to Treasure Island.

He was twenty-five when he began the voyage .

make

After making a three-month voyage to the East Indies in 1738, naval architect William Hutchinson could write from experience.

The snag is that pressing business in London precludes my making any voyages just at present.

But I always wanted to travel, and so I made several voyages as a ship's doctor.

In all, Columbus made three more voyages during the next decade.

As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.

Beside, we had come to get some-thing to eat, and not to make any voyage of discovery.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

maiden flight/voyage

As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.

Fifty-two years before I met him, Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

I missed the maiden flight at Kitty Hawk and managed to be absent when Alan Dershowitz invented the appeal process.

Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.

The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991, with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s.

The company said the first aircraft had experienced no problems during its 18-minute maiden flight.

With barely a week to go before the maiden flight, Paul's report made alarming reading.

outward journey/voyage etc

According to Ziad, Jamal had no problem at Netzarim junction on his outward journey.

Alternatively, for the outward journey only, cancellation coverage up to the holiday invoice cost. 8.

It does not retrace the zig-zags of its outward journey.

She took no pleasure from the countryside as on the outward journey.

Somehow it has measured and remembered the distance it ran on each stage of its outward journey.

That moon flight as an outward journey was outward into ourselves.

The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.

Their outward journey was comparatively easy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In those days, the voyage to Australia was long and dangerous.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585.

Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.

During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.

For the first time during the entire voyage , he failed to respond instantly to a request.

In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.

Jaq had spent the remainder of the voyage feeling exalted, yet pitiful.

We are on the way, but on a rather longer voyage than we knew.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bishop Jon breathed gently, the stylus in his scrolled fingers voyaging up and down on the buoy of his abdomen.

In my heart I am voyaging down the river too.

The string confined flight to the limits of a circle, like a satellite voyaging around the earth.

Year after year he voyaged, hurried from one perilous adventure to another.

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