voyage

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: voy=age
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

voyage, n. [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.].

•  Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.  [1913 Webster]

  "I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest."  [1913 Webster]

  "So steers the prudent crane
  Her annual voyage, borne on winds."  [1913 Webster]

  "All the voyage of their life
  Is bound in shallows and in miseries."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or practice of traveling.  [1913 Webster]

  "Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them."  [1913 Webster]
•  Course; way.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

voyage, v. i. [Cf. F. voyager.].

 To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.  [1913 Webster]
"A mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone."  [1913 Webster]

voyage, v. t. 

 To travel; to pass over; to traverse.  [1913 Webster]
"With what pain
[I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

voyage, n. & v.
--n.
1 a journey, esp. a long one by water, air, or in space.
2 an account of this.
--v.
1 intr. make a voyage.
2 tr. traverse, esp. by water or air.

Derivative

voyageable adj. voyager n.

Etymology

ME f. AF & OF veiage, voiage f. L viaticum

THESAURUS

voyage

boat, campaign, canoe, carry sail, circuit, circumnavigate, coast, course, cover, cross, crossing, cruise, do, excursion, expedition, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go by ship, go on safari, go on shipboard, go over, go overseas, go to sea, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, leg, make a journey, make a passage, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, measure, motorboat, navigate, ocean trip, outing, overpass, package tour, pass over, pass through, passage, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, ply, progress, range, range over, range the world, reconnoiter, round trip, row, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sally, scour, scour the country, scout, scull, sea trip, seafare, shakedown cruise, shoot, sight-see, stalk, steam, steamboat, sweep, take a trip, take a voyage, take the road, tour, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, trek, trip, turn, wayfare, yacht

ROGET THESAURUS

voyage

Motion

N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.

Navigation

N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.