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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JOURNEY, n. jur'ny. [L. diurnus, dies.]
1. The travel of a day.
2. Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely; as a journey from London to Paris, or to Rome; a journey to visit a brother; a week's journey; we made two journeys to Philadelphia.
3. Passage form one place to another; as a long journey from the upper regions.
4. It may sometimes include a passing by water.
JOURNEY, v.i. jur'ny. To travel form place to place; to pass from home to a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south. Genesis 12.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of traveling from one place to another [syn: journey, journeying] v
1: undertake a journey or trip [syn: travel, journey]
2: travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: travel, journey]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural journeys) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jurnee day, day's journey, from jur day, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin, neuter of diurnus Date: 13th century 1. an act or instance of traveling from one place to another ; trip 2. chiefly dialect a day's travel 3. something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another <the journey from youth to maturity> <a journey through time> II. verb (journeyed; journeying) Date: 14th century intransitive verb to go on a journey ; travel transitive verb to travel over or through • journeyer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -eys) 1 an act of going from one place to another, esp. at a long distance. 2 the distance travelled in a specified time (a day's journey). 3 the travelling of a vehicle along a route at a stated time. --v.intr. (-eys, -eyed) Derivatives: journeyer n. Etymology: ME f. OF jornee day, day's work or travel, ult. f. L diurnus daily

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Journey Jour"ney, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Journeyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying.] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. --Gen. xii. 9.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Journey Jour"ney, n.; pl. Journeys. [OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn['e]e, jurn['e]e, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journ['e]e, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.] 1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] --Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. --Milton. 2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. --Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. --Bp. Stillingfleet. Syn: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. Usage: Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Journey Jour"ney, v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] ``I journeyed many a land.'' --Sir W. Scott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(journeys, journeying, journeyed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another. There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in under 4 hours. N-COUNT: oft supp N, N prep 2. You can refer to a person's experience of changing or developing from one state of mind to another as a journey. My films try to describe a journey of discovery, both for myself and the watcher. N-COUNT: with supp 3. If you journey somewhere, you travel there. (FORMAL) In February 1935, Naomi journeyed to the United States for the first time... She has journeyed on horseback through Africa and Turkey. = travel VERB: V to n, V prep/adv

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31).

(2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex. 16:29. (See SABBATH.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jur'-ni.

See DAY'S JOURNEY; SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Travel (by land), tour, excursion, trip, expedition. II. v. n. 1. Travel, ramble, roam, rove, take a tour, make a tour, take a trip, make an excursion. 2. Travel, go, proceed, fare.

Moby Thesaurus

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