From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum.

• IPA: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

voyage (plural voyages)

1. A long journey, especially by ship.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126 ↗, column 1:

     There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.

   • 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC ↗, Act V, scene vi, page 467 ↗, column 2:

     I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]

2. (archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.
3. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗, page 12 ↗:

     [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine 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; simple past and past participle voyaged)

1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
   • 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:

     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 ↗, stanza 9, page 322 ↗:

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