journey
//ˈd͡ʒɝni//
Forms
- Plural
- journeys
- present (v1)
- journey
- past (v2)
- journeyed
- past participle (v3)
- journeyed
- present participle
- journeying
- 3rd person singular
- journeys
Definitions
1.A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
- The journey to London takes two hours by train.
- Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?
2.The progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.
- We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.
3.The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
4.Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
1.To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
- The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2246
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”).
Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.