journey
verb/ˈdʒɜːni/
/ˈdʒɜːrni/
[intransitive] (formal or literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they journey | /ˈdʒɜːni/ /ˈdʒɜːrni/ |
| he / she / it journeys | /ˈdʒɜːniz/ /ˈdʒɜːrniz/ |
| past simple journeyed | /ˈdʒɜːnid/ /ˈdʒɜːrnid/ |
| past participle journeyed | /ˈdʒɜːnid/ /ˈdʒɜːrnid/ |
| -ing form journeying | /ˈdʒɜːniɪŋ/ /ˈdʒɜːrniɪŋ/ |
- (+ adv./prep.) to travel, especially a long distance
- They journeyed for seven long months.
Extra Examples- Human beings have long desired to journey into space.
- In 1834 they journeyed south, staying in Rome and Naples.
- It's a chance to journey through one of America's last wildernesses.
Word OriginMiddle 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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