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VOYAGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("voyager" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Derivation:
voyage (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)
Context examples:
Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
Voyager 2, the longest continuously operated spacecraft, is about 15 billion kilometers away from our sun.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
Voyager 2, launched before Voyager 1, is the longest continuously operated spacecraft and is expected to enter interstellar space in a few years.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
Voyager's visit to the Neptune system revealed previously unseen features of Neptune itself, such as the Great Dark Spot, a massive storm similar to, but not as long-lived, as Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)