• IPA: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/

voyage (plural voyages)

1. A long journey, especially by ship.

   • I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

2. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

     Nations have interknowledge one of another, either by voyage into foreign parts, or by strangers that come to them.

• adventure
• exploration
• expedition
• excursion
• journey
• tour
• vacation

• envoy

• French: voyage
• German: Reise
• Italian: viaggio
• Portuguese: viagem
• Russian: путеше́ствие
• Spanish: viaje

voyage (voyages, present participle voyaging; past and past participle voyaged)

1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey#Noun|journey.

   • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

   • 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, OCLC 1514723 ↗, stanza 9, page 322 ↗:

     O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

Conjugation of voyage

infinitive	(to) voyage
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	voyage	voyaged
2nd-person singular	voyagest*	voyaged, voyagedst*
3rd-person singular	voyages, voyageth*	voyaged#English|voyaged
plural	voyage
subjunctive	voyage
imperative	voyage	—
participle> participles	voyaging	voyaged
* Archaic or obsolete.

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