journe
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed form Old French jornee, from Medieval Latin diurnata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʒurˈneː/, /dʒurˈnɛi̯/
Noun
journe (plural journes)
- An endeavour or enterprise; an attempt at something:
- A journey; a travelling or trip.
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 783-784:
- Toward Saluces shaping hir journey, / Fro day to day they ryden in hir wey […]
- Towards Saluzzo they point their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way […]
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- A military enteprise or operation.
- A battle, fight or conflict.
- (figuratively) The happenings of life.
- (figuratively) Mortality; the final event of one's life.
- A journey; a travelling or trip.
- The happenings or accomplishments of a day:
- A day (period of 24 hours).
Related terms
Descendants
- English: journey
- Scots: jurney
References
- “jǒurnei (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.
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