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   journey

   /ˈdʒəːni/

   noun

   • 1. an act of travelling from one place to another: "an eight-hour train journey"
   • ▪ a long and often difficult process of personal change and development: "her spiritual journey towards Roman Catholicism"

   verb

   • 1. travel somewhere: "they journeyed south"

   Word Origin Middle 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 (see diurnal).

   Derivatives

   • 1. journeyer noun

   Scrabble Points: 17

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   What does journey mean in English?

   • usage note: Do not confuse journey, voyage, trip, and excursion. A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea. ...a journey of over 2,000 miles. If you journey to a place, you travel there. This is a literary use. The nights became colder as they journeyed north.

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   Where did the word journey come from?

   • It comes from the Middle English word journee, meaning “day,” ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin diurnāta, meaning “a day’s time” or “a day’s work.” In English, the meaning of the word journey originally meant something like “a day’s travel,” but eventually came to mean “a long trip.”

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   What is the difference between a trip and a journey?

   • A journey is a trip, especially one to a faraway place that takes place over a long period of time. The word trip can refer to any instance of traveling from one place to another, no matter how long or short it is. The word journey, though, typically implies a long trip—one that’s at least several hours, and perhaps several months or even years.

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   Is Journee a journey?

   • Middle English borrowed journee as journey in both senses, but only the sense “a day’s travel” survived into modern usage. In modern English, journey now refers to a trip without regard to the amount of time it takes. The verb journey developed from the noun and is first attested in the 14th century.

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   What is the plural of journey?

   • The plural form of journey is journeys (not journies). Words that end with a –y preceded by a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) are made plural by adding an -s at the end, as in chimney/chimneys and monkey/monkeys.

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   What is a 'inner journey'?

   • When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another. You can refer to a person's experience of changing or developing from one state of mind to another as a journey. How do we go about embarking on this 'inner journey' to understand ourselves? If you journey somewhere, you travel there.

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   a set of experiences that someone has over a period of time, especially when they change the person in some way: Thank you for being part of my journey. We are all involved in this journey called life. We encourage all parents to be involved in their child's learning journey.

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   The meaning of JOURNEY is something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another. How to use journey in a sentence. Did you know?

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   A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea. There is a direct train from London Paddington to Penzance. The journey takes around 5 hours.

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   A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea. ...a journey of over 2,000 miles. If you journey to a place, you travel there.

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   Journey definition: a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip. See examples of JOURNEY used in a sentence.

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   a set of experiences that someone has over a period of time, especially when they change the person in some way: Thank you for being part of my journey. We are all involved in this journey called life. We encourage all parents to be involved in their child's learning journey.

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   journey an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are a long way apart: a long and difficult journey across the mountains; trip or journey? A trip usually involves you going to a place and back again; a journey is usually one-way.