voyage

From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage, from Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/

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voyage (plural voyages)

1. A long journey, especially by ship.
   • J. Fletcher

     I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.

   • Shakespeare

     All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

2. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
   • Francis Bacon

     Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.

• adventure
• exploration
• expedition
• excursion
• journey
• tour
• vacation

• maiden voyage

• envoy

voyage (third-person singular simple present voyages, present participle voyaging, simple past and past participle voyaged)

1. To go on a long journey.
   • Wordsworth

     A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

From Old French voiage, viage, veiage, from Latin viāticum.

• IPA^(key): /vwa.jaʒ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [vo.jaʒ], [(v)wɒ.jaʒ]
• Homophones: voyagent, voyages
• Hyphenation: vo‧yage
• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

voyage m (plural voyages)

1. trip, travel

voyage

1. first-person singular present indicative of voyager
2. third-person singular present indicative of voyager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of voyager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of voyager
5. second-person singular imperative of voyager

• bon voyage
• voyageur
• voyagiste

• “voyage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• goyave