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jour·ney
I. \ˈjərnē, ˈjə̄n-, ˈjəin-, -ni\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English jurne, jorne, journey, from Old French jornee, journee, from jor, jour day, from Late Latin diurnum, from neuter of Latin diurnus of the day, daily — more at journal
1.
a. : travel or passage from one place to another : trip
< a three-day journey >
b. now chiefly dialect : a day's travel; also : the distance traveled during a day
c. archaic : a stage of a journey : a portion of a trip undertaken at one time
d. : something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another: as
(1) : the course of one's life from birth to death
(2) obsolete : the daily course of the sun across the sky
(3) : an often extended experience that provides new information or knowledge beyond that which one might normally acquire
< a journey into higher mathematics >
< a journey into the customs of another country >
< an inviting and pleasant mental journey for the reader — Frank Mortimer >
< his journey into faith — Florence Bullock >
2.
a. chiefly dialect : a day's labor or a fixed amount of work as an equivalent
b. : a weight of metal (as 15 pounds troy of gold or 60 pounds troy of siver) that was the supply for one day's minting of coins by hand in the British mint and that made up into coin constitutes the unit out of which one coin is set aside for the trial of the pyx
c. : a cycle of work done in glass manufacturing in converting a quantity of material into glass or glass products
3. obsolete
a. : fight, battle
b. : a military expedition : siege, campaign
II. verb
(journeyed ; journeyed ; journeying ; journeys)
Etymology: Middle English jorneyen, journeyen, from Middle French journoier, from journee
intransitive verb
: to go on a journey
< spent the summer journeying >
: go from home to a distant place
< packed his belongings and journeyed to another country >
: travel
< journey from place to place in search of treasure >
< most of us journey to work by bus, tram, train — Agnes M. Miall >
transitive verb
1. : to travel over or through : traverse
< journeyed many a land — Sir Walter Scott >
2. : to separate (coins in the British mint) into journeys |