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journeying

journeying is the present participle and gerund of journey.

Meaning of journey

Verb

journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)

  1. 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

See all 12 meanings of journey

Noun

journeying (plural journeyings)

  1. travel, travelling
    • […] it has been marching forward in a career as pause-less as the sun in his journeyings through the sky[…]1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes

Forms of journeying

pluraljourneyings

Origin of journeying

From Middle English journeyinge; equivalent to journey + -ing.

Questions about journeying

What does journeying mean?
Journeying means travel, travelling.
What is journeying the present participle and gerund of?
Journeying is the present participle and gerund of journey.
What part of speech is journeying?
Journeying is a noun.
What is the plural of journeying?
The plural of journeying is journeyings.

Words near journeying in the dictionary

  1. journeyed
  2. journeyer
  3. journeyers
  4. journeyest
  5. journeyeth
  6. journeying
  7. journeyings
  8. journeylike
  9. journeyman
  10. journeyman's piece
  11. journeyman's pieces

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