VOYAGE


Meaning of VOYAGE in English

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

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