journey Meaning, Definition & Usage

Jour"ney noun

Etymology

OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.

Wordforms

plural Journeys

Definitions

1. The travel or work of a day. Obs. Chaucer.

   We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. Milton.

2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.

   The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19.

   We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

   Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. -- 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.

Jour"ney intransitive verb

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Journeyed ; present participle & verbal noun Journeying

Definitions

1. To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

   Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9.

Jour"ney transitive verb

Definitions

1. To traverse; to travel over or through. R. "I journeyed many a land." Sir W. Scott.