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VOYAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journey to some distant place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("voyage" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voyage"):

crossing (a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean))

space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight (a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere)

Derivation:

voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An act of traveling by water

Synonyms:

ocean trip; voyage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("voyage" is a kind of...):

seafaring; water travel (travel by water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voyage"):

cruise; sail (an ocean trip taken for pleasure)

maiden voyage (the first voyage of its kind)

Derivation:

voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

Example:

The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow

Synonyms:

navigate; sail; voyage

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "voyage" is one way to...):

journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "voyage"):

astrogate (navigate in space)

cruise (sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

voyage (a journey to some distant place)

voyage (an act of traveling by water)

voyager (a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea))

Credits

 Context examples: 

I had made my mind up in a moment, and by way of answer told him the whole story of our voyage and the predicament in which we found ourselves.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

IODP is a collaboration of scientists from 23 countries; the organization coordinates voyages to study the history of the Earth recorded in sediments and rocks beneath the seafloor.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

It plays a significant role in Native Hawaiian creation and settlement stories, and is used to practice important activities like traditional long-distance voyaging and wayfinding.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

When they came to the sea, they got into a ship and during their voyage the two eldest said to themselves, Our brother has got the water which we could not find, therefore our father will forsake us and give him the kingdom, which is our right; so they were full of envy and revenge, and agreed together how they could ruin him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On inquiry, I found that there was a steward on board of the name of James Browner and that he had acted during the voyage in such an extraordinary manner that the captain had been compelled to relieve him of his duties.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, the study also indicates that, as time wore on, the ivory came from smaller animals, often female; with genetic and archaeological evidence suggesting they were sourced from ever farther north – meaning longer and more treacherous hunting voyages for less reward.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

He had the best right to be the talker; and the delight of his sensations in being again in his own house, in the centre of his family, after such a separation, made him communicative and chatty in a very unusual degree; and he was ready to give every information as to his voyage, and answer every question of his two sons almost before it was put.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have hinted also at the trouble which the Professor's baggage gave us when we left the plateau, and had I described our voyage I might have said a good deal of the worry we had to coax with putrid fish the appetite of our filthy companion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know that this is a long voyage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not the voyage, but the distance: and then the sea is a barrier—From what, Jane? From England and from Thornfield: and—Well? From you, sir.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)