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jour·ney

journey

 
 
pronunciation:
juhr ni
parts of speech:
noun, intransitive verb
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part of speech: noun
inflections: journeys
definition 1: a trip, usu. a lengthy one, from one place to another.
The ship makes the journey across the ocean in six days.Many passengers were taken ill during the journey.Everyone wanted to hear of their journey around the world.
synonyms:
travel, trip, voyage
similar words:
excursion, expedition, jaunt, odyssey, passage, ride, sally, tour, trek
definition 2: anything suggesting passage through space or time.
Reading history is a journey into the past.
synonyms:
travel, trip
similar words:
excursion, voyage
Word Combinations  About this feature
adjective + (n.)journey amazing, arduous, bizarre, circuitous, cosmic, cross-country, emotional, endless, epic, evolutionary, exhausting, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, fascinating, guiding, harrowing, hazardous, healing, heroic, homeward, immense, incredible, inner, interstellar, inward, lengthy, lifelong, lonely, long, magic, magical, miraculous, musical, mystical, mythic, one-way, painful, perilous, photographic, pleasant, prehistoric, remarkable, risky, round-trip, sacred, safe, sentimental, slow, solitary, spiritual, symbolic, tedious, terrifying, tortuous, treacherous, unexpected, winding, wondrous  [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)journey accompany, begin, chronicle, complete, embark, encounter, endure, exhaust, recount, resume, retrace, trace, undertake
noun + (n.)journey Help beginning, companion, end, expedition, faith, hardship, hero, leg, ocean, overland, pilgrim, railway, return, shaman, solo, soul, stop, train
 
part of speech: intransitive verb
inflections: journeys, journeying, journeyed
definition: to go on a journey; travel.
We journeyed together up the river.
synonyms:
tour, travel, voyage
similar words:
jaunt, sally, trek, vacation
Word Combinations  About this feature
(v.)journey + adverb alone, far
(v.)journey + nounHelp desert, distance, land, mile, north, south, village
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Word Parts  About this feature
The word journey contains the following part:
di, diurn, journ Latin root that means day