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Journey Long Wasted Good Broke Short Day's Trip

Word journey
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈdʒɜːni / NAmE / ˈdʒɜːrni /
Example
  • 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.
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journey

(noun)BrE / ˈdʒɜːni / NAmE / ˈdʒɜːrni /
  1. 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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