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voyage

VOY-ij/ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Pluralvoyages

Verbvoyages, voyaging, voyaged

4 meanings of voyage

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  1. 1
    long journeynouncountable
    A long trip, especially on a ship.

    The voyage across the ocean took three weeks.

    Sailors on long voyages often missed their families.

    Similarjourney, trip, crossing, passage, expedition

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  2. 2
    make a journeyverbintransitive
    To make a long trip.

    They voyaged for months before they saw land.

    Few people voyage that far on their own.

    Similartravel, sail, journey

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  3. 3
    travel booknounarchaic
    A written story about a journey or about travel.

    The library keeps an old printed voyage by a Dutch sea captain.

    He wrote a voyage about his years in the East.

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Less common meaning

  1. 4
    travel in generalnounobsolete
    Traveling, or the habit of going to other places.
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Origin

It came from old French words that go back to the Latin word viaticum. The modern spelling follows French voyage.