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journey(noun)BrE / ˈdʒɜːni / NAmE / ˈdʒɜːrni / - an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart
- They went on a long train journey across India.
- Did you have a good journey?
- on the outward/return journey
- We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid.
- Don't use the car for short journeys.
- It's a day's journey by car.
- I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do).
- Bye! Safe journey! (= used when somebody is beginning a journey)
- The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
- a business trip
- a five-minute trip by taxi
- a long and difficult journey across the mountains
- a trip to New York
- a round-the-world trip.
- What is your journey to work like?
- a tour of Bavaria
- the first expedition to the South Pole
- We went on an all-day excursion to the island.
- The children were on a day’s outing from school.
- We had a day out at the beach.
Extra Examples- Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
- Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale.
- He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
- He wasn’t there and we had a wasted journey.
- He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas.
- Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world.
- His journey took him across central Asia.
- I hope you had a good journey.
- The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
- The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
- The development of her poetry reflects her inner spiritual journey.
- The journey continued in silence.
- The journey takes about five hours.
- The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted journey.
- They continued their journey on foot.
- They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital.
- They were on a journey to the Far East.
- This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown.
- We broke our return journey in Bangkok.
- a journey by air, bus, land, sea, etc.
- a journey of 300 miles
- a journey of five days
- an epic journey across Africa on foot
- the journey down the Rhine
- I’m afraid you’ve had a wasted journey.
- It was a long and difficult journey across the mountains.
- It’s a journey time of about five hours.
Word Origin- Middle English: from Old French jornee ‘day, a day's travel, a day's work’ (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum ‘daily portion’, from diurnus ‘daily’, from dies ‘day’.
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