journey

English Online Dictionary. What means journey‎? What does journey mean?

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni

Noun

journey (plural journeys)

1. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
2. (figurative) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
3. (obsolete) A day.
4. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
5. (obsolete) A day's work.
6. The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
7. (collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:journey

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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.

Synonyms

• wayfare

Translations

Further reading

• “journey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “journey”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “journey”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Etymology 2

Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni

Noun

journey (plural journeys)

1. (glassblowing) The total time spent melting and working one piece.

Middle English

Noun

journey

1. Alternative form of journe