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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Journey \Jour"ney\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Journeyed}; p. pr & vb n. {Journeying}.] To travel from place to place to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. --Gen. xii. 9. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 1. The travel or work of a day [Obs.] --Chaucer. We have yet large day for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. --Milton. 2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. --Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end --Bp. Stillingfleet Syn: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Journey \Jour"ney\, v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through [R.] ``I journeyed many a land.'' --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: journey n : the act of traveling from one place to another [syn: {journeying}] v 1: travel as for pleasure and sightseeing; go on travels [syn: {travel}] 2: travel upon or across "travel the oceans" [syn: {travel}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Journey (1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex 16:29. (See {SABBATH}.)
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