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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryjour·ney I \ˈjər-nē\ noun (plural journeys) ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French jurnee day, day's journey, from jur day, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin, neuter of diurnus DATE 13th century1. an act or instance of traveling from one place to another : trip2. chiefly dialect : a day's travel3. something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another the journey from youth to maturity a journey through time II verb (jour·neyed ; jour·ney·ing) DATE 14th centuryintransitive verb: to go on a journey : traveltransitive verb: to travel over or through• jour·ney·er nounEnglish Etymologyjourney early 13c., "a defined course of traveling," from O.Frhttp://O.Fr. journée"day's work or travel," from V.L. diurnum "day," noun use of neut.of L. diurnus "of one day" (see diurnal). As recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day." The verb is from early 14c. Journeyman (early 15c.), "one who works by day," preserves the etymological sense. Its Amer.Eng. colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7☞ journeyjour·ney / 5dVE:ni; NAmE 5dVE:rni / noun an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart (尤指长途)旅行,行程: They went on a long train journey across India. 他们乘火车作了一次横跨印度的长途旅行。 (BrE) Did you have a good journey? 你一路顺利吗？ on the outward / return journey 在外出/返回途中 (BrE) We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid. 我们途中在马德里作了短暂的停留。 (BrE) Don't use the car for short journeys. 短途旅行就别开车。 (BrE) It's a day's journey by car. 开车的话要走一天。 (BrE) I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do). 对不起,你是白跑了一趟。 (BrE, informal) Bye! Safe journey! (= used when sb is beginning a journey) 再见！一路平安！ (figurative) The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness. 这本书描述了从绝望到高兴的心理变化过程。 ⇨ note at tripverb[V , usually +adv. / prep.] (formal or literary) to travel, especially a long distance (尤指长途)旅行: They journeyed for seven long months. 他们作了长达七个月的旅行。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishjourney noun ADJ. long, marathon | brief, short | outward | homeward, return | onward The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey. | bus, car, rail, railway, train, etc. | five-mile, four-hour, etc. | comfortable, easy, good, pleasant, safe I hope you had a good journey. Have a safe journey. | arduous, awkward, bad, difficult, gruelling, hard, tedious, terrible, tiring, tortuous | dangerous, hazardous, perilous | overland | cross-country | daily | overnight | epic an epic journey across Africa on foot | wasted The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted journey. | emotional, sentimental, spiritual He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in. VERB + JOURNEY go on, have, make He wasn't there and we had a wasted journey. | break We broke our return journey in San Francisco. | begin, set out on | continue, resume They continued their journey on foot. | complete JOURNEY + VERB take (sb) The journey takes about five hours. His journey took him across central Asia. | begin | end JOURNEY + NOUN time PREP. on ~ They were on a journey to the Far East. | ~ by a journey by air/bus/land/rail/sea, etc. | ~ across, ~ between, ~ down the journey down the Rhine | ~ from, ~ of a journey of 300 miles a journey of five days | ~ through, ~ to The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours. | ~ up PHRASES be tired after/from a journey, a leg/stage of a journey Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Editionn. Function: noun passing or a passage from one place to another FF1C;at that time it was a four day journey from Boston to New YorkFF1E; FF1C;she was tired though their journey was barely begunFF1E; Synonyms: expedition, peregrination(s), travel(s), trek, trip; compare TRIP 1 Related Words: excursion, jaunt, junket, sally, tour; cruise, voyage; pilgrimage, progress, safarin. Function: verb Synonyms: GO 1, fare, hie, pass, proceed, ||process, push on, repair, travel, wendWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedjour·neyI. \ˈjərnē, ˈjə̄n-, ˈjəin-, -ni\ noun(-s)Etymology: Middle English jurne, jorne, journey, from Old French jornee, journee, from jor, jour day, from Late Latin diurnum, from neuter of Latin diurnus of the day, daily — more at journal1. a. : travel or passage from one place to another : trip < a three-day journey > b. now chiefly dialect : a day's travel; also : the distance traveled during a day c. archaic : a stage of a journey : a portion of a trip undertaken at one time d. : something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another: as (1) : the course of one's life from birth to death (2) obsolete : the daily course of the sun across the sky (3) : an often extended experience that provides new information or knowledge beyond that which one might normally acquire < a journey into higher mathematics > < a journey into the customs of another country > < an inviting and pleasant mental journey for the reader — Frank Mortimer > < his journey into faith — Florence Bullock >2. a. chiefly dialect : a day's labor or a fixed amount of work as an equivalent b. : a weight of metal (as 15 pounds troy of gold or 60 pounds troy of siver) that was the supply for one day's minting of coins by hand in the British mint and that made up into coin constitutes the unit out of which one coin is set aside for the trial of the pyx c. : a cycle of work done in glass manufacturing in converting a quantity of material into glass or glass products3. obsolete a. : fight, battle b. : a military expedition : siege, campaignII. verb(journeyed ; journeyed ; journeying ; journeys)Etymology: Middle English jorneyen, journeyen, from Middle French journoier, from journeeintransitive verb: to go on a journey < spent the summer journeying >: go from home to a distant place < packed his belongings and journeyed to another country >: travel < journey from place to place in search of treasure > < most of us journey to work by bus, tram, train — Agnes M. Miall >transitive verb1. : to travel over or through : traverse < journeyed many a land — Sir Walter Scott >2. : to separate (coins in the British mint) into journeys

Journey Verb Place A Journey Noun Day's Travel