Jour"ney (?), n.; pl. Journeys (#). [OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn'ee, jurn'ee, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journ'ee, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.]
1.
The travel or work of a day.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey.
Milton.
2.
Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
The good man . . . is gone a long journey.
Prov. vii. 19.
We must all have the same journey's end.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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Jour"ney, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Journeyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying.]
To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Gen. xii. 9.
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Jour"ney, v. t.
To traverse; to travel over or through.
[R.] "I
journeyed many a land."
Sir W. Scott.
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