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noun

Journey n. (pl. journeys)

1.

The travel or work of a day. (Obs.) "We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey."

2.

Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. "The good man... is gone a long journey."

3.

Hence: (figurative), A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. "We must all have the same journey's end."

4.

The distance that is traveled in a journey (2), or the time taken to complete a journey (2); as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.

Synonyms: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. 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.

verb

Journey v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. (R.) "I journeyed many a land."

Journey v. i. (past & past part. journeyed; pres. part. journeying) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. "Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south."

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Etymology of 'Journey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Journey" Quotes from Famous Books

... become bent by the refraction of the atmosphere, and have thus been turned inwards into the shadow. Such beams have passed through a prodigious thickness of the earth's atmosphere, and in this long journey through hundreds of miles of air they have become tinged with a ruddy or copper-like hue. Nor is this property of our atmosphere an unfamiliar one. The sun both at sunrise and at sunset glows with a light which is much more ruddy than the beams it dispenses at noonday. But at sunset ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... wherein our hearts delighted, that we might serve Him more fully and with less distraction. I do not believe it was sinful. That it is sin in me to love Roland shall I never own. But lest we should love each other better than we love Him, we journey apart for this lower life. And I do not think our Lord is angry with me when at times the longing pain and the aching loneliness seem to overcome me, for a little while. I think He is sorry for me. For since ...

— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt

... the finest insight. To some pilgrims the Valley of Humiliation was the pleasantest part of the journey. Mr. Feeblemind, in the second part of the story, was happier there than anywhere. But Christian is Bunyan himself; and Bunyan had a stiff self-willed nature, and had found his spirit the most stubborn part of him. ...

— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude

... old for her. You'll be fifty-five when she's scarcely forty." He paused and Tabs' heart sank. "You're older than her; but then you're wiser. She needs a husband who'll be wise." He sat leisurely as though he were resting from a long journey; then he stretched out his hand. Tabs went over and took it. "My dear fellow, there's only one thing I ...

— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson

... of the sun, and it is to them all as the celestial city on the world's horizon; dyed with the depths of heaven and clothed with the calm of eternity. There was it set for holy dominion by Him who marked for the sun his journey, and bade the moon know her going down. It was built for its place in the far-off sky; approach it, and the glory of its aspect fades into blanched fearfulness; its purple walls are rent into grisly rocks, ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

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