journey

plural journeys

1. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

   The journey to London takes two hours by train.

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   “Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb

   Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?

   1807, William Wordsworth, “Star Gazers”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 88

2. figurativelyAny process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

   the journey to political freedom

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   my journey of dealing with grief

   Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.

   2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171

   That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.

   2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39

3. businessThe progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.

   a customer journey

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   We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.

4. obsoleteA day.
5. obsoleteA day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
6. obsoleteA day's work.

   But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI

7. The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
8. collectiveA group of giraffes.

   Rolande Bragg (7 December 2023), “The Riding Romance”, in capocagin (Usenet): “Don't be surprised to see elephants or a journey of giraffes pass you from this high point. We rode here for a treehouse brunch and encountered a few elephants along the way.”

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   Luckily, we saw journeys of giraffes countless times during our six days on safari in South Africa.

   2012 October 11, Elizabeth Yardley Pennridge High School, Burlington County Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023

   Josette King (15 April 2012), “Postcard from Eden”, in JosetteKing.com, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024: “But Apollo awaits, eager to shown me crowned cranes dancing their mating dance in the morning sun, prides of lions lounging in the reeds, journeys of giraffes strutting across the plain and birds galore.”

9. African-American VernacularLife on Earth.

present singular third person journeys · participle present journeying · participle past journeyed · past journeyed

1. intransitiveTo travel, to make a trip or voyage.

   The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.

   1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419

   Synonyms: wayfare

plural journeys

1. artsThe total time spent melting and working one piece.

1. A female given name from English.

   Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me.

   1991, Patricia MacLachlan, Journey, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN