voyage

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noun

voy·​age ˈvȯi-ij How to pronounce voyage (audio)
ˈvȯ(-)ij
1
: an act or instance of traveling : journey
2
: a course or period of traveling by other than land routes
a long sea voyage
3
: an account of a journey especially by sea

voyage

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verb

voyaged; voyaging

intransitive verb

: to take a trip : travel
voyager noun

Examples of voyage in a Sentence

Noun The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage. He wrote about his many voyages into the South Seas. a manned voyage to Mars Verb They voyaged to distant lands. He spent his youth voyaging around the globe.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The wealth of information stems from the voyage’s timing. Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024 The 2025 voyage will launch Feb. 22 and run through Feb. 28 with performances from Old Crow Medicine Show, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, and more. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024 By contrast, the Empire accommodates just three dozen guests each evening, in a single two-and-a-half-hour seating, placing diners in the voyage’s top 0.5 percent. Brett Berk, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024 The 160-destination voyage left from Miami nearly three months ago and has already traveled through multiple parts of the Americas, including Brazil, Argentina and Peru, and is set to end on Sept. 10, 2024. Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024 Sailing round-trip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the 1,432-passenger Volendam, the voyage will depart on Jan. 4, 2026, sailing south along the east coast of South America, all the way to Antarctica. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024 The voyage will visit 47 ports across 39 countries on an east-to-west route, sailing roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, traveling as far south as Antarctica and all the way up north to Oslo, Norway. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 The remainder of the voyage includes Singapore, the Maldives, the Mediterranean and northern Europe. Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024 Jakub is six months into that solo voyage and 500 million kilometers from home when cabin fever starts getting to him. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
Verb
He was hired in 1831 as a naturalist aboard the ship and voyaged around South America and the surrounding islands, including the Galápagos, to study and collect plants and animals. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024 They are thought to have been hewn between the 12th and 17th centuries, after Polynesians voyaged to the middle of the earth’s largest ocean in search of new lands, came upon a fertile, unpopulated island, and settled there. Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024 Some companies shipping goods on the crucial trade lane are starting to chafe at the rising prices and extra fees that ocean carriers are imposing for the higher cost of routing containerships on longer voyages around the Horn of Africa following drone and missile attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Paul Berger, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024 Perpetually drawn to the outdoors, from searching for bones amid post-WW2 rubble as a kid, to voyaging to Donovan’s Scottish commune by horse and carriage in her 20s, Bunyan long rooted her music’s roving spirit in a desire for physicality that’s muddy and crestfallen. Pitchfork, 20 Nov. 2023 He is sentenced to death on August 2. June 18 - A civilian submersible disappears with five people aboard while voyaging to the wreckage of the Titanic. CNN, 13 Nov. 2023 The Nicaragua route also allows migrants to avoid the boat voyages to Europe that have killed tens of thousands in the past decade. Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023 How on earth could prehistoric people of Borneo, presumably voyaging in boats without maps or compasses, have ended up in Madagascar? Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023 In 1868, a giant, heavy-browed head undertook an even longer journey, voyaging all the way from Polynesia to London, to converge with these other ancient travelers inside a single building called the British Museum. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English viage, veyage, from Anglo-French veiage, from Late Latin viaticum, from Latin, traveling money, from neuter of viaticus of a journey, from via way — more at way

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of voyage was in the 14th century

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Cite this Entry

“Voyage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voyage. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

voyage

1 of 2 noun
voy·​age ˈvȯi-ij How to pronounce voyage (audio)
ˈvȯ(-)ij
: a journey especially by water from one place or country to another

voyage

2 of 2 verb
voyaged; voyaging
: to take a trip : travel
voyager noun

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