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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VOYAGE, n.
1. A passing by sea or water from one place, port or country to another, especially a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. Captain L. made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda.
2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.]
VOYAGE, v.i. To sail or pass by water.
VOYAGE, v.t. To travel; to pass over.
I with pain Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an act of traveling by water [syn: ocean trip, voyage]
2: a journey to some distant place v
1: travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: voyage, sail, navigate]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English viage, veyage, from Anglo-French veiage, from Late Latin viaticum, from Latin, traveling money, from neuter of viaticus of a journey, from via way — more at way Date: 14th century 1. an act or instance of traveling ; journey 2. a course or period of traveling by other than land routes <a long sea voyage> 3. an account of a journey especially by sea II. verb (voyaged; voyaging) Date: 15th century intransitive verb to take a trip ; travel transitive verb sail, traverse • voyager noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a journey, esp. a long one by water, air, or in space. 2 an account of this. --v. 1 intr. make a voyage. 2 tr. traverse, esp. by water or air. Derivatives: voyageable adj. voyager n. Etymology: ME f. AF & OF veiage, voiage f. L viaticum

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Voyage Voy"age, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Voyaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Voyaging.] [Cf. F. voyager.] To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water. A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. --Wordsworth.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Voyage Voy"age, v. t. To travel; to pass over; to traverse. With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Voyage Voy"age (?; 48), n. [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.] 1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. --J. Fletcher. So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. --Milton. All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. --Shak. 2. The act or practice of traveling. [Obs.] Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. --Bacon. 3. Course; way. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(voyages, voyaging, voyaged) 1. A voyage is a long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft. ...the first space shuttle voyage to be devoted entirely to astronomy. N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp 2. To voyage to a place means to travel there, especially by sea. (FORMAL) The Greenpeace flagship is voyaging through the Arctic cold of the Barents Sea. = journey, travel VERB: V prep/adv • voyager (voyagers) ...fifteenth-century voyagers to the lands now called America and the Caribbean. N-COUNT • voyaging Our boat would not have been appropriate for ocean voyaging. N-UNCOUNT: supp N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Journey by water, passage by sea. II. v. n. Cruise, sail, take a voyage, take a cruise, travel by sea, take ship, plough the waves, plough the deep.

Moby Thesaurus

boat, campaign, canoe, carry sail, circuit, circumnavigate, coast, course, cover, cross, crossing, cruise, do, excursion, expedition, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go by ship, go on safari, go on shipboard, go over, go overseas, go to sea, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, leg, make a journey, make a passage, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, measure, motorboat, navigate, ocean trip, outing, overpass, package tour, pass over, pass through, passage, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, ply, progress, range, range over, range the world, reconnoiter, round trip, row, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sally, scour, scour the country, scout, scull, sea trip, seafare, shakedown cruise, shoot, sight-see, stalk, steam, steamboat, sweep, take a trip, take a voyage, take the road, tour, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, trek, trip, turn, wayfare, yacht