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[ voi -ij ]

Synonyms: cruise

• a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.
• a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

the voyages of Marco Polo.

• Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.

verb (used without object)

• to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object)

to voyage the seven seas.

/ ˈvɔɪɪdʒ /

• a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air
• obsolete. an ambitious project

we will voyage to Africa

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Derived forms.

• ˈvoyager , noun

Other Words From

• voyag·er noun
• outvoyage verb (used with object) outvoyaged outvoyaging
• re·voyage noun verb revoyaged revoyaging
• un·voyag·ing adjective

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Origin of voyage 1

Idioms and Phrases

Synonym study, example sentences.

The preserve is such hardy stuff, in fact, that Christopher Columbus packed it alongside salt cod and hardtack on his transatlantic voyages.

Other data do suggest that ancient humans could have deliberately made the voyage to the Ryukyu Islands.

It is unlikely that ancient mariners would have set out on an ocean voyage with a major storm on the horizon, say paleoanthropologist Yousuke Kaifu of the University of Tokyo and colleagues.

Days after the Diamond Princess evacuation, a ship from the same company, the Grand Princess, set sail from San Francisco on another ill-fated voyage.

A statue of its namesake explorer stands in the lobby, near a chart of Cook’s voyages.

It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

People might be surprised that during that period “Maiden Voyage,” one of your most well-loved standards, began as a TV jingle.

It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.

The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.

The voyage is a new one, certainly for Tambor, but also for Hollywood, in many ways.

Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.

Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.

I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

The Swedish boatswain consoled him, and he modified his opinions as the voyage went on.

Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.

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• American English : voyage / ˈvɔɪɪdʒ /
• Brazilian Portuguese : viagem
• Chinese : 航程
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• German : Reise
• Italian : viaggio in nave, nello spazio
• Japanese : 旅
• Korean : 긴 여행
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• Spanish : travesía
• Thai : การเดินทาง

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From Middle English viage , borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage , from Latin viaticum . The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage . Doublet of viaticum .

Pronunciation

• IPA ( key ) : /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

voyage ( plural voyages )

• 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “ The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies   [ … ] ( First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed [ ward ] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act IV, scene iii ] , page 126 , column 1: There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.
• 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher , “ The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy ”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies.   [ … ] , [ part 1 ] , London: [ … ] J [ ohn ] Macock [ and H. Hills ] , for John Martyn , Henry Herringman , and Richard Marriot , published 1679 , →OCLC , Act V, scene vi, page 467 , column 2: I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]
• 1880 , Richard Francis Burton , The Lusiads , volume I, translation of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, page 23 : "And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
• 1690 , “ The Preface to the Reader ”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies , London: Randal Taylor, page v: I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard [ … ]
• 1690 , “ A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French ”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies , London: Randal Taylor, page 1: By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years [ … ]
• 1631 , Francis [Bacon] , “ New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished. ”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.   [ … ] , 3rd edition, London: [ … ] William Rawley ; [ p ] rinted by J [ ohn ] H [ aviland ] for William Lee   [ … ] , page 12 , →OCLC : [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]
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Derived terms

• maiden voyage
• nom de voyage
• not wanted on voyage
• voyage data recorder
• voyage of the damned

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Translations.

voyage ( third-person singular simple present voyages , present participle voyaging , simple past and past participle voyaged )

• 1850 , William Wordsworth , The Prelude : A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
• 1870 , Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass   [ … ] , Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher ,   [ … ] , published 1892 , →OCLC , stanza 9, page 322 : O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

Conjugation

† Archaic or obsolete .

Inherited from Old French voiage , viage , veiage , from Latin viāticum . Doublet of viatique .

• IPA ( key ) : /vwa.jaʒ/
• ( Louisiana ) IPA ( key ) : [vo.jaʒ] , [(v)wɒ.jaʒ]
• Homophones : voyagent , voyages
• Hyphenation: vo‧yage
• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

voyage   m ( plural voyages )

• trip , travel
• first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive
• second-person singular imperative
• agence de voyages
• gens de voyage
• récit de voyage
• voyage d’affaires
• voyage dans le temps
• voyage de noces

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

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What does the noun voyage mean?

There are 21 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun voyage , nine of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

voyage has developed meanings and uses in subjects including

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Middle English

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

OED's earliest evidence for voyage is from 1297, in Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle .

voyage is a borrowing from French.

Etymons: French veage , voiage .

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• vox nihili, n. 1637–
• vox pop, n. 1735–
• 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–

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Definitions for voyage ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ voy·age, this dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word voyage ., princeton's wordnet rate this definition: 2.7 / 3 votes.

ocean trip, voyage noun

an act of traveling by water

• voyage verb

a journey to some distant place

voyage, sail, navigate verb

travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

"The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

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voyage noun

A long journey; especially by ship.

To go on a long journey.

Etymology: viage, from viage, from voiage, from viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern voyage.

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A voyage refers to a long journey involving travel by sea or in space. It can also potentially refer to an airplane journey.

Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 5.0 / 3 votes

Voyage noun

formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country

the act or practice of traveling

course; way

Voyage verb

to take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water

to travel; to pass over; to traverse

Etymology: [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.]

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Voyage is a 1996 hard science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter. The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963. Voyage won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997. It has since been made into a radio serial for BBC Radio 4.

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voi′āj, n. passage by water: ( Shak. ) an enterprise.— v.i. to make a voyage, or to pass by water.— v.t. to traverse, pass over.— adj. Voy′age-able , navigable.— n. Voy′ager , one who voyages.— n.pl. Voyageurs (vwo-ya-zher′), name given in Canada to the men who in their bark canoes kept up communication between the stations, and effected transportation of men and supplies, in the North-west and Hudson's Bay territory. [Fr.,—L. viaticum , travelling-money—L. via , a way.]

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A journey by sea. It usually includes the outward and homeward trips, which are called passages.

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A long journey involving travel by sea or in space. Go on a long journey, typically by Sea or in space.

My Temporal voyage is mine own to explore enduring all the time.

Etymology: Hajj

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The numerical value of voyage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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The numerical value of voyage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of voyage in a Sentence

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President Obama’s decision to seek normalized relations with Cuba sets up new challenges for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for the White House if Hillary Clinton chooses to run … Hillary Clinton talked of recommending that President Obama end the embargo toward the end of Hillary Clinton term as President Obama secretary of State. Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton husband, Hillary Clinton, have a contentious history with the Cuban-American population in Florida that goes back to the fight over Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban child whom the president allowed to be returned to his father in Havana after Elian Gonzalez fled to Florida with Elian Gonzalez mother, who died on the voyage … Former Sen. Mel Martinez( R-Fla.) , who left Cuba as a child, predicted that the move by Obama on Wednesday would affect the Cuban-American vote in a way that would not be good for President Obama or Hillary Clinton … He also warned that the actions will remind Cuban-Americans of the Hillary Clinton policies toward Cuba that they opposed, as well as the Elian Gonzalez incident. ‘ It's a reminder, ’ he said. ‘ I think all of that gets revived. ’.

Marcel Proust :

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Carl Sagan :

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Judge Ruben Castillo :

Given the amount, it's nonsensical to think this was this defendant's inaugural voyage into cocaine trafficking.

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