journey, journeying
(noun) the act of traveling from one place to another
travel, journey
(verb) undertake a journey or trip
travel, journey
(verb) travel upon or across; “travel the oceans”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Journey
A female given name from English.
journey (plural journeys)
A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
(metaphorical) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
(obsolete) A day.
(obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
(obsolete) A day's work.
The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
(collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes.
• See also journey
journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)
To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
• wayfare
Source: Wiktionary
Jour"ney, n.; pl. Journeys. Etym: [OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.]
1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. Milton.
2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.
Syn.
– Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage.
– Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Jour"ney, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Journeyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying.]
Definition: To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9.
Jour"ney, v. t.
Definition: To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] "I journeyed many a land." Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
