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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
voyage (plural voyages)
- A long journey, especially by ship.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 126, column 1: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.
1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. , , London: J Macock , for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene vi, page 467, column 2:I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]
1880, Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, volume I, translation of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, page 23:"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[.]"
- (archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.
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: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 […]
- (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
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Translations
long journey; especially by ship
- Afrikaans: reis (af) sg
- Albanian: lundrim (sq) m, fluturim (sq) m
- Arabic: رِحْلَة f (riḥla)
- Egyptian Arabic: رحلة f (reḥla)
- Armenian: ճամփորդություն (hy) (čampʻordutʻyun), ուղևորություն (hy) (uġeworutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: səyahət (az), səfər (az)
- Bulgarian: пътеше́ствие (bg) n (pǎtešéstvie)
- Catalan: viatge (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 海程 (zh) (hǎichéng), 航海 (zh) (hánghǎi)
- Czech: plavba (cs) f
- Dutch: reis (nl)
- Esperanto: vojaĝo (eo)
- Finnish: matka (fi)
- French: voyage (fr) m
- Georgian: მგზავრობა (mgzavroba)
- German: Reise (de) f
- Greek: ταξίδι (el) n (taxídi)
- Ancient: πλόος m (plóos), πλοῦς m (ploûs)
- Hebrew: הַפְלָגָה (he) f (haflaga)
- Hungarian: tengeri utazás, hajóút (hu)
- Ido: voyajo (io)
- Italian: viaggio (it) m
- Japanese: 航海 (ja) (こうかい, kōkai), 旅 (ja) (たび, tabi), 旅行 (ja) (りょこう, ryokō)
- Korean: 여행(旅行) (ko) (yeohaeng), 항해 (ko) (hanghae)
- Latvian: ceļojums m, brauciens m, reiss m
- Macedonian: пату́вање n (patúvanje), патеше́ствие n (patešéstvie)
- Malay: perjalanan (ms)
- Maori: wharaunga, rerenga
- Mongolian: аялал (mn) (ajalal), аян (mn) (ajan), нислэг (mn) (nisleg)
- Navajo: ił ooʼoł
- Norwegian: reise (no), sjøreise
- Occitan: viatge (oc) m
- Persian: سفر (fa) (safar)
- Plautdietsch: Reis f
- Polish: rejs (pl) m
- Portuguese: viagem (pt) f
- Romanian: călătorie (ro) f
- Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n (putešéstvije), пла́вание (ru) n (plávanije), воя́ж (ru) m (vojáž), рейс (ru) m (rejs)
- Scottish Gaelic: (on sea) turas-mara m, bhòidse f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: путовање n, путешествије n
- Roman: putovanje (sh) n, putešestvije (sh) n
- Spanish: viaje (es) m, travesía (es) f, periplo (es) m
- Swedish: resa (sv) c
- Turkish: seyahat (tr)
- Welsh: mordaith f
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Verb
voyage (third-person singular simple present voyages, present participle voyaging, simple past and past participle voyaged)
- (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass , Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, , published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 322:O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?
Conjugation
Translations
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French voiage, viage, veiage, from Latin viāticum. Doublet of viatique.
Pronunciation
Noun
voyage m (plural voyages)
- trip, travel
Verb
voyage
- inflection of voyager:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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