Crossword clues for journeys
journeys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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The travel or work of a day. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey.
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Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time.
The good man . . . is gone a long journey.
--Prov. vii. 19. -
Hence: [figurative], A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another.
We must all have the same journey's end.
--Bp. Stillingfleet. -
The distance that is traveled in a journey[2], or the time taken to complete a journey[2]; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.
Syn: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt.
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.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "journeys".
Exploration teams were to file all projected journeys with this central agency to prevent overlapping.
Bericus had the use of one of Prince Cador's horses, and I rode Spadix on the outward journeys, though the pony was often laden with supplies on the way back, with me walking at his head.
Since then, in speedier spaceships, other journeys had been initiated.
She thought little of it, since this was the hour when people did undertake journeys, when the fierce sun was setting.
It hadn't occurred to her before that she had never seen Clodagh outside the village except for a time or two on journeys to Sean's house.
Anyone who's ever flown anything is wondering how the damned thing stayed in the air, much less made journeys out into space.
Flats and flats of broiled rock squat and loaves of bread were boarded as well as convenient twenty-five-pound sacks of wheat and a dozen of flour, enough for her to make bread on the journeys and at Barevi.
One vast convoy, with dolphin support, keeping one of the bigger ships as guardian, while the others make straight journeys from Kahrain or Paradise to the Fort?
But exploring appropriate premises was time-consuming, and with Thread continuing to fall, any outbound journeys had to be carefully timed and safe layover shelters built along the way.
His clothes were stiff with moisture frozen into the hide by constant journeys between.
He hadn't minded the long journeys between holds, the teaching, even the focus of his thoughts - Kasia's beautiful sea-green eyes, her laugh, her body, the peace she had given him.
Additional journeys to the Yokohama will be necessitated to improve the basic life-support systems, namely to replant the algae tanks.
The names had been set to dolphin music and could be sung on longer journeys in the Great Currents.
Readis suspected that Master Samvel emphasized the water sports in deference to his infirmity but he thought it made sense that people should learn how to swim when so many long journeys were made on the seas.
Later on, in their winter quarters and during their sledge journeys, they got to know how easy it was to be deluded as regards distance, and what very false appearances distant objects could assume.