Jour"ney , v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.]
"I journeyed many a land."
Sir W. Scott.
Jour"ney , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Journeyed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Journeying.]
To travel from place to place; to go from home to
a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Gen. xii.
9.
Jour"ney (?), n.;
pl. Journeys (#). [OE. jornee,
journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F.
journée, fr. OF.
jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.]
1. The travel or
work of a day. [Obs.] Chaucer.
We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey.
Milton.
2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively,
a passage through life.
The good man . . . is gone a long
journey.
Prov. vii.
19. We must all have
the same journey's end.
Bp. Stillingfleet. Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a
tour, we take a roundabout course from place to
place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour
or trip for
pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train
of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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