voyage

Etymology

From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.

noun

  1. A long journey, especially by ship.
    "And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]" 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23
  2. (archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.
    I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […] 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v
    By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […] 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1
  3. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
    A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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