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voyaging

voyaging is the present participle and gerund of voyage.

Meaning of voyage

Verb

voyage (third-person singular simple present voyages, present participle voyaging, simple past and past participle voyaged)

  1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
    • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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Noun

voyaging (plural voyagings)

  1. Act of travelling or going on a voyage.
    • Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Albatross”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 264

Forms of voyaging

pluralvoyagings

Questions about voyaging

What does voyaging mean?
Voyaging means act of travelling or going on a voyage.
What is voyaging the present participle and gerund of?
Voyaging is the present participle and gerund of voyage.
What part of speech is voyaging?
Voyaging is a noun.
What is the plural of voyaging?
The plural of voyaging is voyagings.

Words near voyaging in the dictionary

  1. voyages
  2. voyagest
  3. voyageth
  4. voyageur
  5. voyageurs
  6. voyaging
  7. voyagings
  8. voyce
  9. voyced
  10. voyces
  11. voycing

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