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Meaning of journey in English

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journey noun [C] ( TRIP )

  • She gave the children some sweets to chew on during the long car journey.
  • The journey was quite quick because the road was clear .
  • I expect you'd like to rest after your long journey.
  • We did the journey to Wales in five hours .
  • The train journey took us through a valley past rolling hills .
  • break-journey
  • circumnavigation

journey noun [C] ( EXPERIENCES )

  • advance the cause
  • advancement
  • formatively
  • from A to B idiom
  • progressive
  • progressively
  • punctuated equilibrium

journey noun [C] ( BOOK )

  • absorptive capacity
  • acquisition
  • hit the books idiom
  • mug (something) up
  • non-academic
  • recognition
  • subspecialty
  • swot up (something)
  • uncredentialed
  • around Robin Hood's barn idiom
  • communication
  • super-commuting
  • transoceanic
  • well travelled

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Definition of journey noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

  • They went on a long train journey across India.
  • to begin/continue/complete a journey
  • Many refugees made the journey alone.
  • Did you have a good journey?
  • the outward/return journey
  • We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid.
  • (British English) Don't use the car for short journeys.
  • It's a day's journey by car.
  • The average journey time is about 50 minutes.
  • on a journey She took her sister with her to keep her company on the journey.
  • journey from… Devizes is a two-hour journey from London.
  • journey to… It is unclear why he embarked on his final journey to Vienna.
  • (British English) I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do) .
  • (informal) Bye! Safe journey! (= used when somebody is beginning a journey)
  • a business trip
  • a five-minute trip by taxi
  • a long and difficult journey across the mountains
  • a tour of Bavaria
  • the first expedition to the South Pole
  • We went on an all-day excursion to the island.
  • The children were on a day’s outing from school.
  • We had a day out at the beach.
  • a(n) foreign/​overseas trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition
  • a bus/​coach/​train/​rail trip/​journey/​tour
  • to go on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion/​outing/​day out
  • to set out/​off on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
  • to make a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
  • destination
  • measures to cut the number of car journeys into the city
  • He is planning a journey through Europe this summer.
  • People were crammed onto ships for the dangerous journey across the Atlantic.
  • Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
  • Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale.
  • He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
  • He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas.
  • Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world.
  • The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
  • The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
  • The journey continued in silence.
  • The journey takes about five hours.
  • They continued their journey on foot.
  • They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital.
  • They were on a journey to the Far East.
  • This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown.
  • take (somebody)
  • be tired after a journey
  • be tired from a journey
  • a leg of a journey

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  • I was excited by the character's journey in the film.
  • journey (from something) (to something) The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.

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a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.

a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling: a desert journey.

a period of travel: a week's journey.

passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to success.

to make a journey; travel.

Origin of journey

Synonym study for journey, other words for journey, other words from journey.

  • jour·ney·er, noun
  • outjourney, verb (used with object), out·jour·neyed, out·jour·ney·ing.

Words Nearby journey

  • journal intime
  • journalistic
  • journeywork

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How to use journey in a sentence

If either is selected, it would not launch until 2026 at the earliest, and would take at least a few months to make the journey .

The job is a cherry on top, but the journey and the experience of being able to audition and leave your heart in the room and feel good about it, no matter what happens, that’s rare and that was amazing.

Cross-device measurement helps connect the dots of your customer’s journey and ensures you know how effective your campaigns are at driving user behavior.

You are somewhat of a new grandmother and you’ve been enjoying that journey .

Instead of having numerous articles addressing each of these particular questions, brands and publishers could consolidate this information as it is all pertinent to the same stage of the journey that the user is in.

The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey .

The next day, after driving to Putney on the outskirts of London, we start the end of our journey .

The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

We began a journey with Koenig in the first episode of Serial.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey .

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey , he asked him to read the chit.

But dismissing them from our thoughts for the time being, as we did then from our presence, let us continue our journey .

If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.

It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey .

British Dictionary definitions for journey

/ ( ˈdʒɜːnɪ ) /

a travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage

the distance travelled in a journey

the time taken to make a journey

(intr) to make a journey

Derived forms of journey

  • journeyer , noun

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