journey
journey
(dʒɜːʳni )Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense journeys , present participle journeying , past tense, past participle journeyed
1. countable noun
When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another.
There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in under 4 hours. [+ to]
2. countable noun
You can refer to a person's experience of changing or developing from one state of mind to another as a journey.
How do we go about embarking on this 'inner journey' to understand ourselves?
My films try to describe a journey of discovery, both for myself and the watcher. [+ of]
3. verb
usage note: Do not confuse journey, voyage, trip, and excursion. A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea. ...a journey of over 2,000 miles. If you journey to a place, you travel there. This is a literary use. The nights became colder as they journeyed north. A voyage is a very long journey from one place to another, usually by sea or through space. ...the voyage to the moon in 1972. A trip is the process of travelling from one place to another, staying there, usually for a short time, and coming back again. ...a business trip to Milan. Note that the verb trip is not used with this meaning. An excursion is a short trip made either as a tourist or in order to do a particular thing. The tourist office organizes excursions to the palace of Knossos.