Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
JOURNEYED
Verb
journeyed
simple past tense and past participle of journey
Source: Wiktionary
JOURNEY
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
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