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voyage

[ voi-ij ]

noun

  1. a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

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  2. a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.
  3. a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.
  4. Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself:

    the voyages of Marco Polo.

  5. Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.


verb (used without object)

voyaged, voyaging.
  1. to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object)

voyaged, voyaging.
  1. to traverse by a voyage:

    to voyage the seven seas.

voyage

/ ˈ±¹É”ɪɪ»åÏô /

noun

  1. a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air
  2. obsolete.
    an ambitious project
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verb

  1. to travel over or traverse (something)

    we will voyage to Africa

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±¹´Ç²â²¹²µ±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±¹´Ç²âa²µÂ·±ð°ù noun
  • ´Ç³Ü³Ùv´Ç²âa²µ±ð verb (used with object) outvoyaged outvoyaging
  • °ù±ð·±¹´Ç²âa²µ±ð noun verb revoyaged revoyaging
  • ³Ü²Ô·±¹´Ç²âa²µÂ·¾±²Ô²µ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of voyage1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin ±¹¾±Äå³Ù¾±³¦³Ü³¾ “t°ù²¹±¹±ð±ô-³¾´Ç²Ô±ð²ââ€; viaticum
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of voyage1

C13: from Old French veiage, from Latin ±¹¾±Äå³Ù¾±³¦³Ü³¾ provision for travelling, from ±¹¾±Äå³Ù¾±³¦³Ü²õ concerning a journey, from via a way
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Idioms and Phrases

see maiden voyage .
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Synonym Study

See trip 1.
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Example Sentences

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Launching from Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles, the voyage took three days.

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For a team that’s trying to defend its World Series title and amplify its brand on an international stage, it marked a successful voyage.

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Yamamoto has pitched only five innings, his arm not sufficiently built up to pitch any longer with this season starting more than a week earlier than usual because of this overseas voyage to his homeland.

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Before we begin this week’s analysis, we’re saying bon voyage to Meredith Blake, who has departed The Times after more than 12 years.

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Some claim Christopher Columbus learned of cacao beans on his fourth voyage to the Americas and brought them back to Spain in 1502.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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