Meanings
plural journeyers
- A traveller.
The latest in this long line of winter journeyers is a British tenor, Mark Padmore, who sang Schubert’s song cycle at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday night with the pianist Ethan Iverson.
2008 January 17, Bernard Holland, “For Schubert, a Sad Tale Was the Best for Winter”, in The New York Times1 more example
Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
1992, Spirited Women Book Company (publisher), At the Crossroads, page 48
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Middle Englishjourneier
- Englishjourneyer
From Late Middle English journeier; equivalent to journey + -er.
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journeyer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/journeyer
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