Definition of the word voyage

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Noun[edit]

voyage (plural voyages)

  1. A long journey, especially by ship.

    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126, column 1:

      There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.

    • 1621 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene vi, page 467, column 2:

      I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; […]

    • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:

      «And as their valour, so you trow, defied
      on aspe’rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
      so many changing skies their manhood tried,
      such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]»

  2. (archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.

    • 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v:

      I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]

  3. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.

Synonyms[edit]

  • adventure
  • exploration
  • expedition
  • excursion
  • journey
  • tour
  • vacation

Derived terms[edit]

  • maiden voyage
  • voyage of the damned

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  • envoy

Translations[edit]

long journey; especially by ship

  • Arabic: رِحْلَة‎ f (riḥla)
    Egyptian Arabic: رحلة‎ f (reḥla)
  • Armenian: ճամփորդություն (hy) (čampʿordutʿyun), ուղեւորություն (hy) (ułeworutʿyun)
  • Azerbaijani: səyahət (az), səfər (az)
  • Bulgarian: пътеше́ствие (bg) n (pǎtešéstvie)
  • Catalan: viatge (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 海程 (zh) (hǎichéng), 航海 (zh) (hánghǎi)
  • Czech: plavba (cs) f
  • Dutch: reis (nl)
  • Esperanto: vojaĝo (eo)
  • Finnish: matka (fi)
  • French: voyage (fr) m
  • Georgian: მგზავრობა (mgzavroba)
  • German: Reise (de) f
  • Greek: ταξίδι (el) n (taxídi)
    Ancient: πλόος m (plóos), πλοῦς m (ploûs)
  • Hebrew: הַפְלָגָה‎ (he) f (haflaga)
  • Hungarian: tengeri utazás, hajóút (hu)
  • Ido: voyajo (io)
  • Italian: viaggio (it) m
  • Japanese: 航海 (ja) (こうかい, kōkai), 旅 (ja) (たび, tabi), 旅行 (ja) (りょこう, ryokō)
  • Korean: 여행(旅行) (ko) (yeohaeng), 항해 (ko) (hanghae)
  • Latvian: ceļojums m, brauciens m, reiss m
  • Macedonian: пату́вање n (patúvanje), патеше́ствие n (patešéstvie)
  • Malay: perjalanan
  • Maori: wharaunga, rerenga
  • Mongolian: аялал (mn) (ajalal), аян (mn) (ajan), нислэг (mn) (nisleg)
  • Navajo: ił ooʼoł
  • Norwegian: reise (no), sjøreise
  • Occitan: viatge (oc) m
  • Persian: سفر‎ (fa) (safar)
  • Plautdietsch: Reis f
  • Polish: rejs (pl) m
  • Portuguese: viagem (pt) f
  • Romanian: călătorie (ro) f
  • Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n (putešéstvije), пла́вание (ru) n (plávanije), воя́ж (ru) m (vojáž), рейс (ru) m (rejs)
  • Scottish Gaelic: (on sea) turas-mara m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: путовање n, путешествије n
    Roman: putovanje (sh) n, putešestvije (sh) n
  • Spanish: viaje (es) m
  • Swedish: resa (sv) c
  • Turkish: seyahat (tr)
  • Welsh: mordaith f

Verb[edit]

voyage (third-person singular simple present voyages, present participle voyaging, simple past and past participle voyaged)

  1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
    • 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude
      A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

    • 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 322:

      O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

Conjugation[edit]

Translations[edit]

to go on a long journey

  • Bulgarian: пътешествам (pǎtešestvam)

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French voiage, viage, veiage, from Latin viāticum. Doublet of viatique.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /vwa.jaʒ/
  • Audio (France, Paris) (file)
  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): [vo.jaʒ], [(v)wɒ.jaʒ]
  • Homophones: voyagent, voyages
  • Hyphenation: vo‧yage
  • Rhymes: -ɑʒ

Noun[edit]

voyage m (plural voyages)

  1. trip, travel

Verb[edit]

voyage

  1. inflection of voyager:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

[edit]

  • agence de voyages
  • bon voyage
  • gens de voyage
  • récit de voyage
  • voyage d’affaires
  • voyage dans le temps
  • voyage de noces
  • voyageur
  • voyagiste

Further reading[edit]

  • “voyage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams[edit]

  • goyave
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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

  1. ocean trip, voyagenoun

    an act of traveling by water

  2. voyageverb

    a journey to some distant place

  3. voyage, sail, navigateverb

    travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

    «The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow»

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. voyagenoun

    A long journey; especially by ship.

  2. voyageverb

    To go on a long journey.

  3. Etymology: viage, from viage, from voiage, from viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern voyage.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 3 votes

  1. Voyagenoun

    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

  2. Voyagenoun

    the act or practice of traveling

  3. Voyagenoun

    course; way

  4. Voyageverb

    to take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water

  5. Voyageverb

    to travel; to pass over; to traverse

  6. Etymology: [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.]

FreebaseRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

  1. Voyage

    Voyage is a 1996 hard science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter. The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963. Voyage won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997. It has since been made into a radio serial for BBC Radio 4.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Voyage

    voi′āj, n. passage by water: (Shak.) an enterprise.—v.i. to make a voyage, or to pass by water.—v.t. to traverse, pass over.—adj. Voy′age-able, navigable.—n. Voy′ager, one who voyages.—n.pl. Voyageurs (vwo-ya-zher′), name given in Canada to the men who in their bark canoes kept up communication between the stations, and effected transportation of men and supplies, in the North-west and Hudson’s Bay territory. [Fr.,—L. viaticum, travelling-money—L. via, a way.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. voyage

    A journey by sea. It usually includes the outward and homeward
    trips, which are called passages.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of voyage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of voyage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of voyage in a Sentence

  1. Princess Cruises:

    While there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 currently on board, the CDC has identified groups of guests and crew who will be tested before arrival into San Francisco, there are fewer than 100 guests and crew identified for testing, including all in-transit guests( guests who were on the previous Mexico voyage and remained onboard for the current Hawaii voyage), those guests and crew who have experienced influenza-like illness symptoms on this voyage, and guests currently under care for respiratory illness.

  2. Jon Rappoport:

    There is an irreducible thing. It’s called freedom. It is native to every individual. Sometimes it rears its head in the middle of the night, and the dreamer awakes. And he asks himself: what is my freedom for? And then he begins a voyage that no device can record, measure, or analyze. If he pursues it long enough, it takes him out of the labyrinth.

  3. Marcel Proust:

    The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  4. Eugene McCarthy:

    Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

  5. Pat Conroy:

    Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

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Translations for voyage

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • رحلةArabic
  • viatgeCatalan, Valencian
  • plavbaCzech
  • mordaithWelsh
  • ReiseGerman
  • ταξίδιGreek
  • vojaĝoEsperanto
  • viajeSpanish
  • سفرPersian
  • matkaFinnish
  • voyageFrench
  • turas-maraScottish Gaelic
  • טיול, מסעHebrew
  • hajóút, utazásHungarian
  • voyajoIdo
  • viaggioItalian
  • מַסָעHebrew
  • 旅, 旅行, 航海Japanese
  • მგზავრობაGeorgian
  • 旅行, 항해, 여행Korean
  • Catalogus plantarumLatin
  • wharaunga, rerengaMāori
  • аялал, аян, нислэгMongolian
  • perjalananMalay
  • reisDutch
  • sjøreise, reiseNorwegian
  • ił ooʼołNavajo, Navaho
  • rejsPolish
  • viagemPortuguese
  • călătorieRomanian
  • рейс, вояж, путешествие, плаваниеRussian
  • putovanje, путешествије, путовање, putešestvijeSerbo-Croatian
  • resaSwedish
  • seyahat, yolculukTurkish
  • hành trìnhVietnamese

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Noun



The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage.



He wrote about his many voyages into the South Seas.



a manned voyage to Mars

Verb



They voyaged to distant lands.



He spent his youth voyaging around the globe.

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noun

a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.

a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself: the voyages of Marco Polo.

Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.

verb (used without object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

verb (used with object), voy·aged, voy·ag·ing.

to traverse by a voyage: to voyage the seven seas.

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Origin of voyage

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin viāticum “travel-money”; see viaticum

synonym study for voyage

OTHER WORDS FROM voyage

voy·ag·er, nounoutvoyage, verb (used with object), out·voy·aged, out·voy·ag·ing.re·voy·age, noun, verb, re·voy·aged, re·voy·ag·ing.un·voy·ag·ing, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH voyage

voyager , voyageur

Words nearby voyage

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Words related to voyage

boating, crossing, cruise, excursion, hop, jaunt, junket, passage, sail, swing, tour, travel, trek, trip, weekend, overnight

How to use voyage in a sentence

  • The preserve is such hardy stuff, in fact, that Christopher Columbus packed it alongside salt cod and hardtack on his transatlantic voyages.

  • Other data do suggest that ancient humans could have deliberately made the voyage to the Ryukyu Islands.

  • It is unlikely that ancient mariners would have set out on an ocean voyage with a major storm on the horizon, say paleoanthropologist Yousuke Kaifu of the University of Tokyo and colleagues.

  • Days after the Diamond Princess evacuation, a ship from the same company, the Grand Princess, set sail from San Francisco on another ill-fated voyage.

  • A statue of its namesake explorer stands in the lobby, near a chart of Cook’s voyages.

  • It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

  • People might be surprised that during that period “Maiden Voyage,” one of your most well-loved standards, began as a TV jingle.

  • It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.

  • The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.

  • The voyage is a new one, certainly for Tambor, but also for Hollywood, in many ways.

  • Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.

  • Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.

  • I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

  • The Swedish boatswain consoled him, and he modified his opinions as the voyage went on.

  • Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.

British Dictionary definitions for voyage

noun

a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air

obsolete an ambitious project

verb

to travel over or traverse (something)we will voyage to Africa

Derived forms of voyage

voyager, noun

Word Origin for voyage

C13: from Old French veiage, from Latin viāticum provision for travelling, from viāticus concerning a journey, from via a way

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Other forms: voyages; voyaging; voyaged

If someone tells you «bon voyage!» they mean have a good trip. Voyage means trip in French but in English, we use it to mean a long journey.

Though voyage is usually used literally to mean a long and exciting journey or a trip that involves sailing such as a cruise, it can be used figuratively as well. Researching your family tree might become a voyage of self-discovery, taking you places you don’t expect and teaching you more about yourself than you thought possible.

Definitions of voyage

  1. noun

    a journey to some distant place

  2. noun

    an act of traveling by water

  3. verb

    travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

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