Voyage Meaning
/ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA long journey, especially by ship.
nounA written account of a journey or travel.
Sentence Examples
I wish you a pleasant voyage.
A voyage to the moon in a spaceship is no longer a dream.
Mary went on a voyage around the world.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ship began its long ____ across the Atlantic Ocean with a crew of fifty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers set out on a long ____ across the ocean to find many new and interesting lands in the west today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries."
— 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126, column 1:
"I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]"
— 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene vi, page 467, column 2:
""And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]""
— 1880, Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, volume I, translation of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, page 23:
"I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]"
— 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v:
"By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]"
— 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ship began its long ____ across the Atlantic Ocean with a crew of fifty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers set out on a long ____ across the ocean to find many new and interesting lands in the west today.