journeys

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of journey.

   The explorer recorded her journeys in a worn leather notebook.

   Train journeys through the mountains offer some of the finest views in the country.

   Note

   A regular plural that keeps its y. Because a vowel comes before the y, journey simply adds -s instead of changing to -ies, as valleys and keys do. The plural carries every noun meaning: train journeys, the figurative journeys of recovery or growth, and even the mint's technical sense, where journeys are batches of finished coins delivered to the Master of the Mint.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of journey.

   Each spring she journeys north to study the migrating birds.

   The old trader journeys between the two cities once every month.

   Note

   The verb form that agrees with a single subject, including a group treated as one unit: the team journeys to the Arctic Circle. It nearly always takes a phrase of direction (to, north, between two cities), because to journey is to travel somewhere. It is spelled exactly like the plural noun, and position tells them apart: after a subject it is the verb, and after an article or adjective it is the noun.

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