voyager dictionary pronounce

• Pronunciation
• Try to pronounce
• Collections
• Translation

Learn how to pronounce voyager

• Very difficult

IPA : ˈvɔɪɪʤə

Have you finished your recording?

Phonetic spelling of voyager

voy-ager 0 rating rating ratings Private

Thanks for contributing

You are not logged in..

Please Log in or Register or post as a guest

Meanings for voyager

A popular Space probe was manufactured by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977. 0 rating rating ratings Ardella Kreiger

Synonyms for voyager

traveler 0 rating rating ratings Daniella Ankunding Traveller 0 rating rating ratings Olin Cole voyagers 0 rating rating ratings Devon Moore wanderer 0 rating rating ratings Lacy Lemke

Learn more about the word "voyager" , its origin, alternative forms, and usage from Wiktionary.

Quiz on voyager

{{ quiz.name }}

{{ quiz.questions_count }} Questions

Show more fewer Quiz

Collections on voyager

-{{collection.uname}}

Show more fewer Collections

Wiki content for voyager

Show more fewer Wiki

Examples of in a sentence

voyager should be in sentence

Translations of voyager

Show more fewer Translation

Add voyager details

voyager pronunciation with meanings, synonyms, antonyms, translations, sentences and more

The correct way to pronounce the name celeste holm is, popular collections, celebrities, world leaders, useful german travel phrases audio pronunciation, dutch vocabulary, popular quizzes.

Trending on HowToPronounce

• Sabrina Carpenter [en]
• Cap cut [en]
• Xxxtentacion [en]
• andrei [en]
• Araujo [en]
• Sweet tooth [en]
• Solayne [en]
• Eddie Hall [en]
• Josiah [en]
• krause [en]
• Fiona Harvey [en]
• BJ Thompson [en]

Word of the day

Latest word submissions, recently viewed words, flag word/pronunciation, create a quiz.

• Daily Crossword
• Word Puzzle
• Word Finder
• Word of the Day
• Synonym of the Day
• Word of the Year
• Language stories
• All featured
• Gender and sexuality
• All pop culture
• Writing hub
• Grammar essentials
• Commonly confused
• All writing tips
• Pop culture
• Writing tips

Advertisement

[ voi - uh -jer ]

• one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

/ ˈvɔɪədʒə /

• either of two US spacecraft that studied the outer solar system; Voyager 1 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980), Voyager 2 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1981) and made the first flyby of Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989)

Discover More

Example sentences.

A member of Voyager’s optical navigation team, Linda Morabito, spotted an odd, mushroom-shaped feature extending off the edge of Io while she was trying to plot the spacecraft’s position on March 9, 1979.

The Voyager flyby did offer hints that there’s more to Uranus than meets the eye.

More surprising, Voyager’s instruments showed that Uranus’s magnetic field is tilted 60 degrees relative to its axis, as if your compass needle pointed to Houston instead of the north pole.

The simulation shows a significant fraction of a galaxy can be settled in a relatively short period of time, even with ships traveling no faster than the Voyager spacecraft.

It sent gold-plated music albums and photos on the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.

The television shows were prolific: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.

Not Now, Voyager: A Memoirby Lynne Sharon Schwartz The acclaimed author expertly reflects on travel.

The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness.

The air voyager in this description of balloon had formerly many difficulties to contend with.

At the worst, an abstract ideal is pemmican to carry the voyager through the long nights until the ice begins to break.

The night was very dark, and as the huge voyager had no "light out" the Advance could not be censured for running foul.

Many an early voyager was unexpectedly caught by this hook, and found himself embayed.

Related Words

• Expressions
• Musical terms
• Nationality
• Swear words
• Common Phrases
• Text to Speech

Auto Sound ---

• Common phrases

Instantly hear a word pronounced on enter. One word per entry.

Browse and Improve Your English Pronunciation of "voyager" related Words with Howjsay

2 nearest result(s) for 'voyager'.

• 1.1 Etymology
• 1.2 Pronunciation
• 1.3.1 Synonyms
• 1.3.2 Related terms
• 1.3.3 Translations
• 2.1 Etymology
• 2.2 Pronunciation
• 2.3.1 Conjugation
• 2.3.2 Derived terms
• 2.4 Further reading

From voyage +‎ -er .

Pronunciation

voyager ( plural voyagers )

• 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic ‎ [1] : This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers .

Related terms

Translations.

• IPA ( key ) : /vwa.ja.ʒe/
• 1986 , Desireless (lyrics and music), “Voyage, Voyage”, in François : Voyage, voyage / Plus loin que la nuit et le jour (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / Dans l’espace inouï de l’amour Voyage, voyage / Further than the night and the day (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / In the unheard-of space of love

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voyage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/ ). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger , such as neiger and manger .

Derived terms

• machine à voyager dans le temps
• voyageotter

Further reading

• “ voyager ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

• English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
• English terms with audio links
• English lemmas
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• English terms with quotations
• French terms suffixed with -er
• French 3-syllable words
• French terms with IPA pronunciation
• French terms with audio links
• French lemmas
• French verbs
• French terms with quotations
• French verbs with conjugation -ger
• French first group verbs
• English entries with topic categories using raw markup

Navigation menu

Words and phrases

Personal account.

• Access or purchase personal subscriptions
• Get our newsletter
• Save searches
• Set display preferences

Institutional access

Sign in with library card

Sign in with username / password

Recommend to your librarian

Institutional account management

Sign in as administrator on Oxford Academic

voyager noun

• Hide all quotations

What does the noun voyager mean?

There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun voyager , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

voyager has developed meanings and uses in subjects including

Entry status

OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

How common is the noun voyager ?

How is the noun voyager pronounced, british english, u.s. english, where does the noun voyager come from.

Earliest known use

Middle English

The earliest known use of the noun voyager is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).

OED's earliest evidence for voyager is from 1477, in a translation by William Caxton, printer, merchant, and diplomat.

voyager is of multiple origins. Either a borrowing from French. Or formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: French veaigier ; voyage v. , ‑er suffix 1 .

Nearby entries

• vox-pop, v. 1915–
• vox-popping, n. 1928–
• vox populi, n. c1547–
• voyage, n. 1297–
• voyagé, adj. 1931–
• voyage, v. 1477–
• voyageable, adj. 1819–
• voyage food, n. c1610–15
• voyage policy, n. 1848–
• voyage provision, n. 1562–65
• voyager, n. 1477–
• voyageur, n. 1793–
• voyaging, n. 1611–
• voyant, n. 1938–
• voyant, adj. 1906–
• voye, n. 1541–78
• voyeur, n. 1900–
• voyeur, v. 1959–
• voyeurism, n. 1924–
• voyeurist, n. & adj. 1955–
• voyeuristic, adj. 1929–

Thank you for visiting Oxford English Dictionary

To continue reading, please sign in below or purchase a subscription. After purchasing, please sign in below to access the content.

Meaning & use

Pronunciation, entry history for voyager, n..

voyager, n. was first published in 1920; not yet revised.

voyager, n. was last modified in July 2023.

Revision of the OED is a long-term project. Entries in oed.com which have not been revised may include:

• corrections and revisions to definitions, pronunciation, etymology, headwords, variant spellings, quotations, and dates;
• new senses, phrases, and quotations which have been added in subsequent print and online updates.

Revisions and additions of this kind were last incorporated into voyager, n. in July 2023.

Earlier versions of this entry were published in:

OED First Edition (1920)

• Find out more

OED Second Edition (1989)

• View voyager in OED Second Edition

Please submit your feedback for voyager, n.

Please include your email address if you are happy to be contacted about your feedback. OUP will not use this email address for any other purpose.

Citation details

Factsheet for voyager, n., browse entry.

• TheFreeDictionary
• Word / Article
• Starts with
• Free toolbar & extensions
• Word of the Day
• Free content
• alternative
• backbreaking
• back-number
• vowel gradation
• vowel mutation
• vowel point
• vowel rhyme
• vowel sound
• vowel system
• vox angelica
• voyage charter
• Voyageurs National Park
• voyeuristic
• voyeuristical
• voyeuristically
• Voznesenski
• Voznesenski Andrei
• Voznesensky
• vraisemblance
• Vreeland Diana Dalziel
• Voyage Across Technology
• Voyage au bout de la nuit
• Voyage au centre de la Terre
• Voyage Culture Cuba
• Voyage Data Recorder
• Voyage de Recherché d'un Domicile
• Voyage Document Number
• Voyage Home
• Voyage into the Unknown
• Voyage Management System
• Voyage of the Damned
• Voyage of the Odyssey
• Voyage of the Princess Ark
• Voyage Pas Cher
• Voyage Policies
• Voyage Policy
• Voyage Repair
• Voyage Repair Availability
• Voyage to Venus
• Voyager Entertainment International, Inc.
• Voyager Interstellar Mission
• Voyager Jet Center
• Voyager probes
• Voyager program
• Voyager Repair Team
• Voyager Users Group Meeting
• Voyager Virtual Season
• Voyagers Mail Forwarding Service
• Voyagers Trail Grooming Association
• Voyages Autocars Services
• Voyages Haute Loire
• Voyages Jules Verne
• Voyages Roland Van Gyseghem
• Voyageur (disambiguation)
• Voyageur Multi-Use Trail System
• Voyageur Outward Bound School
• Voyageur Region Rover Round Table
• Voyageur Technical Sales Inc.
• Voyageur, Représentant, Placier
• Facebook Share

• More from M-W
• To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In

Definition of voyage

 (Entry 1 of 2)

Definition of voyage  (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

transitive verb

• peregrinate

Examples of voyage in a Sentence

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'voyage.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Word History

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

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Phrases Containing voyage

Dictionary entries near voyage.

vox populi vox Dei

voyage charter party

Cite this Entry

“Voyage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voyage. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.

Kids Definition

Kids definition of voyage.

Kids Definition of voyage  (Entry 2 of 2)

More from Merriam-Webster on voyage

Nglish: Translation of voyage for Spanish Speakers

Britannica English: Translation of voyage for Arabic Speakers

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Can you solve 4 words at once?

Word of the day.

See Definitions and Examples »

Get Word of the Day daily email!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism', more commonly misspelled words, commonly misspelled words, how to use em dashes (—), en dashes (–) , and hyphens (-), absent letters that are heard anyway, popular in wordplay, the words of the week - june 7, 8 words for lesser-known musical instruments, 9 superb owl words, 10 words for lesser-known games and sports, your favorite band is in the dictionary, games & quizzes.

• Dictionaries home
• American English
• Collocations
• German-English
• Grammar home
• Practical English Usage
• Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
• Word Lists home
• My Word Lists
• Recent additions
• Resources home
• Text Checker

Definition of voyage noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• an around-the-world voyage
• a voyage in space
• The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage (= first journey) .
• (figurative) Going to college can be a voyage of self-discovery.
• Darwin’s epic voyage of exploration
• reconnaissance
• Lady Franklin kept a journal during the voyage.
• The ship completed her maiden voyage in May.
• There were mainly scientists on the voyage.
• Bering's voyage of discovery was one of many scientific expeditions in the 18th century.
• The ship began its return voyage to Europe.
• The ship was badly damaged during the voyage from Plymouth.
• They set off on their voyage around the world.
• Writing a biography can be an absorbing voyage of discovery.
• during a/​the voyage
• on a/​the voyage
• voyage from
• a voyage of discovery

Questions about grammar and vocabulary?

Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.

Other results

Nearby words.

• Cambridge Dictionary +Plus

English pronunciation of rollator

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio

(English pronunciations of rollator from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary , both sources © Cambridge University Press)

Word of the Day

to build a nest, or live in a nest

Worse than or worst of all? How to use the words ‘worse’ and ‘worst’

Learn more with +Plus

• Recent and Recommended {{#preferredDictionaries}} {{name}} {{/preferredDictionaries}}
• Definitions Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English English Learner’s Dictionary Essential British English Essential American English
• Grammar and thesaurus Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English Grammar Thesaurus
• Pronunciation British and American pronunciations with audio English Pronunciation
• English–Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified)–English
• English–Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Traditional)–English
• English–Dutch Dutch–English
• English–French French–English
• English–German German–English
• English–Indonesian Indonesian–English
• English–Italian Italian–English
• English–Japanese Japanese–English
• English–Norwegian Norwegian–English
• English–Polish Polish–English
• English–Portuguese Portuguese–English
• English–Spanish Spanish–English
• English–Swedish Swedish–English
• Dictionary +Plus Word Lists
• All translations

To add ${headword} to a word list please sign up or log in.

Add ${headword} to one of your lists below, or create a new one.

{{message}}

Something went wrong.

There was a problem sending your report.