I. ˈvȯi(.i)j, ˈvȯiēj, ˈvȯ(i)yij, -yēj noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English veyage, vayage, voyage, from Old French veiage, vayage, voiage, from Late Latin viaticum, from Latin, traveling money, provisions for a journey, from neuter of viaticus of a journey, from viatus (past participle of viare to travel, from via way) + -icus -ic — more at via
1.
a. : an act or instance of traveling : excursion , tour
the glee club … Christmas trip, a voyage taken annually to advertise the institution — Scribner's
spent the last fortnight in voyages through furniture shops — H.J.Laski
b. : something that resembles a trip
a couple from London, bound … on the voyage of matrimony — Tobias Smollett
2. obsolete
a. : a military expedition
the Simeonites' second voyage against the Amalekites — Thomas Fuller
b. : a private venture
if he should intend this voyage toward my wife, I would turn her loose to him — Shakespeare
3.
a. : a journey by water : cruise
with a fair sea voyage , and a fair land journey — Charles Dickens
icebergs … breaking loose for their long voyage to obliteration — Valter Schytt
b. : a journey through air or space
the first human balloon voyage — Charles Dimont
the earth in its annual voyage round the sun — R.S.Ball
a rocket voyage to the moon
4. : an account of a journey and especially of an exploratory trip by sea
Canto XXVI, the voyage of Ulysses — T.S.Eliot
5.
a. : an expedition undertaken for the collection at sea of a commercial cargo for disposal usually on return to the home port
a whaling voyage
b.
(1) : the proceeds of such a nautical enterprise
share a voyage
(2) : a crew member's share of such proceeds
said … he was willing to bet his whole voyage that the ship had overrun her reckoning — H.A.Chippendale
II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
intransitive verb
: to take a trip : travel
voyage up the seaway aboard the royal yacht — Newsweek
novelists have voyaged in imagination from planet to planet in rockets — Waldemar Kaempffert
transitive verb
: sail , traverse
voyage the briny deep
in a year, Americans voyaged 18,059,000,000 scheduled air-passenger-miles — Time