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voyager|ˈvɔɪɪdʒə(r)|
Also 6 vyager, -eour, 6–7 viager.
[ad. OF. veaigier, voi-, voyag(i)er (F. voyageur), or f. voyage v. + -er1.]
1. One who journeys; a traveller by land.
1477[see voyage v. 1]. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 616/1 Them coumpte we stylle for vyagers and pylgrimes..towarde the same place..that we walke. 1686Burnet Trav. 3 It may look like a presumptuous affectation to be reckoned among Voyagers, if he attempts to say anything upon so short a ramble, and concerning places so much visited, and by consequence so well known. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 20 The Patache is a vehicle that the traveller..will frequently have recourse to. Its voyagers are a grade lower in society than those of the diligence. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 11 Such a voyager, if it has ever been his hap to turn his feet to Orleans. 1885Sat. Rev. 23 Oct. 532/2 Let any student of life..go to a terminus when a train has come in, and watch the faces of the voyagers as they battle for ‘their things’.
†b. knight voyager, a knight errant. Obs.
c1500Melusine 362 The kyng vnderstod by the report of som knightes vyageours, that there was in the grete Armanye a Castel.
2. One who goes upon, or takes part in, a voyage or voyages by sea; a navigator.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xix. 298 Fenton next, and Jackman.., Both Voyagers, that were with famous Frobosher. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. xl. 52 You go on to prefer my Captivity in this Fleet to that of a Voyager at Sea. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Resurrect. i, Not Winds to Voyagers at Sea, Nor Showers to Earth more necessary be,..Than Verse to Virtue. 1709Steele Tatler No. 34 ⁋5 It is usual with young Voyagers, as soon as they land upon a Shore, to begin their Accounts of the Nature of the People. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 529 Voyagers..are much divided in their accounts of the natives. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xci, Long shall the voyager, with th' Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 1 The Arctic voyagers have seen King Winter on his throne. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 119 The Sea Lion of voyagers in the southern seas.
b. transf. and fig., in various applications.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 189 She prays for the little Infant Voyager, That he may so pass the Waves of this troublesome World as finally to come to the Land of Ever⁓lasting Life. 1819Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1880 IV. 147 Your boat will be to the ocean of water, what this earth is to the ocean of aether—a prosperous and swift voyager. 1826Mechanics' Mag. VI. 286/2 In this region the voyager [in a balloon] sailed till half-past nine o'clock. 1847Emerson Poems, Humble Bee 15 Insect lover of the sun,..sailor of the atmosphere,..Voyager of light and noon. 1890Spectator 7 June 793/1 This rapid voyager [the dragon-fly] passes over you, proceeds beyond you.., then turns [etc.]. |