Hypertext Webster Gateway: "journey"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

Journey
(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num.
11:31).

(2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the
city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was
the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex.
16:29. (See {SABBATH}.)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Journey \Jour"ney\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Journeyed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Journeying}.]
To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
--Gen. xii. 9.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Journey \Jour"ney\, n.; pl. {Journeys}. [OE. jornee, journee,
prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn['e]e, jurn['e]e, a day, a
day's work of journey, F. journ['e]e, 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.

Usage: {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Journey \Jour"ney\, v. t.
To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] ``I journeyed
many a land.'' --Sir W. Scott.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

journey
n : the act of traveling from one place to another [syn: {journeying}]
v 1: undertake a journey or trip [syn: {travel}]
2: travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: {travel}]


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