Voyage
['vɒɪɪdʒ] or ['vɔɪɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a journey to some distant place.
(verb.) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; 'The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow'.
Typist: Sophie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
(n.) The act or practice of traveling.
(n.) Course; way.
(v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
(v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Journey by water, passage by sea.
v. n. Cruise, sail, take a voyage, take a cruise, travel by sea, take ship, plough the waves, plough the deep.
Editor: Olivia
Definition
n. passage by water: (Shak.) an enterprise.—v.i. to make a voyage or to pass by water.—v.t. to traverse pass over.—adj. Voy′age-able navigable.—n. Voy′ager one who voyages.—n.pl. Voyageurs (vwo-ya-zher′) name given in Canada to the men who in their bark canoes kept up communication between the stations and effected transportation of men and supplies in the North-west and Hudson's Bay territory.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To make a voyage in your dreams, foretells that you will receive some inheritance besides that which your labors win for you. A disastrous voyage brings incompetence, and false loves.
Checker: Raffles
Examples
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He gives his master a short account of his voyage. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yes, it was her first voyage--she had never been from home before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The seamen soon knew whence I came last: they were curious to inquire into my voyages and course of life. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There were voyages in Japanese-built ships to India and Peru. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Pilar looked at him mockingly, remembering now, proudly, her voyages. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And having been long used to sea-voyages, those motions, although sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He had then had several successful voyages in succession, and in the following year, 1884, he retired. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You may remember, that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good uncle Thomas's library. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It seems as inevitable that voyaging should make men free in their minds as that settlement within a narrow horizon should make men timid and servile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. Plato. The Republic.
- Other submarines had voyaged from German ports to the eastern limit of the Mediterranean, but it was the most notable and attracted the widest attention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco, through wild mountain scenery, and by hamlets and villas, and disembarked at the town of Lecco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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