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- [voi-ij]
- /ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ/
- /ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [voi-ij]
- /ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ/
Definitions of voyage word
- noun voyage a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place. 1
- noun voyage a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle. 1
- noun voyage a journey or expedition from one place to another by land. 1
- noun voyage Often, voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself: the voyages of Marco Polo. 1
- noun voyage Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking. 1
- verb without object voyage to make or take a voyage; travel; journey. 1
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Origin of voyage
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English ve(i)age, viage, voyage < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin viāticum travel-money; see viaticum
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Parts of speech for Voyage
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
voyage popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
voyage usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for voyage
verb voyage
- adventuring — the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
- captaining — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- cruise — A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
- cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
noun voyage
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
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