Journey

journey
    n 1: the act of traveling from one place to another [syn:
         {journey}, {journeying}]
    v 1: undertake a journey or trip [syn: {travel}, {journey}]
    2: travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: {travel},
       {journey}]
    

Journey \Jour"ney\, n.; pl. {Journeys}. [OE. jornee, journee,
   prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn['e]e, jurn['e]e, a day, a
   day's work of journey, F. journ['e]e, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor
   a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See {Journal}.]
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   1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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            We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
            Hath finished half his journey.       --Milton.
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   2. Travel or passage from one place to another, especially
      one covering a large distance or taking a long time.
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            The good man . . . is gone a long journey. --Prov.
                                                  vii. 19.
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   3. Hence: [figurative], A passage through life, or a passage
      through any significant experience, or from one state to
      another.
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            We must all have the same journey's end. --Bp.
                                                  Stillingfleet.

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

   Usage: {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.
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Journey \Jour"ney\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Journeyed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Journeying}.]
   To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
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         Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
                                                  --Gen. xii. 9.
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Journey \Jour"ney\, v. t.
   To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] "I journeyed
   many a land." --Sir W. Scott.
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Journey
(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num.
11:31).

  (2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the
city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was
the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex.
16:29. (See {SABBATH}.)
    

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      fare, gad about, gallivant, globe-trot, go, go abroad,
      go on safari, go overseas, grand tour, hie, hit the trail, jaunt,
      journeyings, journeys, junket, make a journey, make a pilgrimage,
      make a trip, odyssey, outing, package tour, pass, passage, passing,
      peregrinate, peregrination, peregrinations, peripatetics, pilgrim,
      pilgrimage, pleasure trip, proceed, process, progress, push on,
      range, range the world, repair, roam, round trip, route, rove,
      rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, sight-see,
      stalk, take a trip, take the road, tour, transit, transition,
      travel, travels, trek, trip, turn, voyage, voyagings, wander,
      wanderings, way, wayfare, wend