voyage
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/
Noun

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.
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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?
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