Journey

//ˈd͡ʒɝni// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English.

    "Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me."

Noun
  1. 1
    A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

    "The journey to London takes two hours by train."

  2. 2
    The total time spent melting and working one piece.
  3. 3
    the act of traveling from one place to another wordnet
  4. 4
    Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development. figuratively

    "the journey to political freedom"

  5. 5
    A day. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day. obsolete
  2. 7
    A day's work. obsolete

    "But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte"

  3. 8
    The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
  4. 9
    A group of giraffes. collective, colloquial
Verb
  1. 1
    To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

    "The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended."

  2. 2
    undertake a journey or trip wordnet
  3. 3
    travel upon or across wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.

Etymology 2

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.

Etymology 3

Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.

Etymology 4

From journey at the end of the 20th century.

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