1. voyage(n = noun.act) ocean trip - an act of traveling by water;
is a kind of seafaring, water travel
has particulars: cruise, sail, maiden voyage
Derived form verb voyage1
2. voyage(n = noun.act) - a journey to some distant place;
is a kind of journey, journeying
has particulars: crossing, space travel, spacefaring, spaceflight
Derived form verb voyage1
voyage(v = verb.motion) navigate, sail - travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"
is one way to journey, travel
Derived forms noun voyage2, noun voyage1, noun voyager1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody PP
1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. [1913 Webster]
"I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest." [1913 Webster]
"So steers the prudent crane
Her annual voyage, borne on winds." [1913 Webster]
"All the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." [1913 Webster]
2. The act or practice of traveling. [1913 Webster]
"Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them." [1913 Webster]
3. Course; way. Shak. [1913 Webster]
To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water. [1913 Webster]
"A mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone." [1913 Webster]
To travel; to pass over; to traverse. [1913 Webster]
"With what pain
[I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep." [1913 Webster]
voyage, n. & v.
--n.
1 a journey, esp. a long one by water, air, or in space.
2 an account of this.
--v.
1 intr. make a voyage.
2 tr. traverse, esp. by water or air.
Derivative:
voyageable adj. voyager n.
Etymology:
ME f. AF & OF veiage, voiage f. L viaticum
N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.