journey
/ˈd͡ʒɜːni//ˈd͡ʒɝni/
journey noun: a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
Noun (1)
journey (plural journeys)
- A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
- The journey to London takes two hours by train.
- “Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb
- Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
- the journey to political freedom
- my journey of dealing with grief
- The progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.
- We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.
- a customer journey
- A day.
- A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
- A day's work.
- But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI
- The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
- A group of giraffes.
- Luckily, we saw journeys of giraffes countless times during our six days on safari in South Africa.2012 October 11, Elizabeth Yardley Pennridge High School, Burlington County Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023
- Rolande Bragg (7 December 2023), “The Riding Romance”, in capocagin (Usenet): “Don't be surprised to see elephants or a journey of giraffes pass you from this high point. We rode here for a treehouse brunch and encountered a few elephants along the way.”
- Life on Earth.
Verb
journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)
- To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
- The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419
- Synonyms:
- wayfare
Noun (2)
journey (plural journeys)
- The total time spent melting and working one piece.
Proper noun capitalized: Journey
Journey
- A female given name from English.
- Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me.1991, Patricia MacLachlan, Journey, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN
journey meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
journey in Hindi
- trip, a voyage
- यात्रा yātrā, सफ़र safar
- to travel, to make a trip or voyage
- यात्रा करना yātrā karnā
journey in Tamil
- பயணம், நாளுலா
journey in Marathi
- trip, a voyage
- प्रवास pravās
- process or progression likened to a journey
- प्रवास pravās
- to travel, to make a trip or voyage
- प्रवास करणे pravās karṇe
journey in Urdu
- trip, a voyage
- سَفَر safar, سِیاحَت siyāhat
More languagesFewer languages
- journey in Bengali
- যাত্রা jatra
- journey in Telugu
- ప్రయాణము prayāṇamu, ప్రయాణించు prayāṇiñcu
- journey in Malayalam
- യാത്ര yātra, സഞ്ചാരം sañcāraṁ
- journey in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಯಾಣ prayāṇa, ಪಯಣ payaṇa
- journey in Punjabi
- واٹ vāṭ, ਸਫ਼ਰ safar, ਯਾਤਰਾ yātrā
- journey in Gujarati
- યાત્રા yātrā
- journey in Odia
- ଅଧ୍ୱ adhwa
- journey in Sanskrit
- यात्रा yātrā
- journey in Nepali
- यात्रा yātrā
- journey in Pashto
- سفر safar, سياحت sayāhat
- journey in Arabic
- رِحْلَة riḥla, سَفَر safar, سَيَاحَة sayāḥa, مُسَافَرَة musāfara
- journey in Indonesian
- perjalanan
- journey in Thai
- การเดินทาง gaan-dəən-taang
- journey in Vietnamese
- cuộc hành trình
- journey in Myanmar
- ခရီး hka.ri:
Examples of journey in a sentence
- Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?1807, William Wordsworth, “Star Gazers”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page...
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original...
- But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake.2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
Synonyms of journey
Forms of journey
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | journeys |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | journeys |
| present participle | journeying |
| past participle | journeyed |
| past | journeyed |
Origin of journey
From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.
Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.
From journey at the end of the 20th century.
Words formed from journey
Phrases with journey
Words that rhyme with journey
Questions about journey
- What does journey mean?
- Journey means a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
- What is journey in Hindi?
- Journey in Hindi is यात्रा (yātrā), सफ़र (safar), यात्रा करना (yātrā karnā). See Journey meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use journey in a sentence?
- Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?
- What part of speech is journey?
- Journey can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce journey?
- Journey is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɝni/ (US).
- What is the plural of journey?
- The plural of journey is journeys.
Words near journey in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: journey (page history and authors); Journey (page history and authors); journey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಪಯಣ (Kannada) (page history and authors); واٹ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); યાત્રા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଅଧ୍ୱ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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