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Meaning of voyage | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ

Definitions

  1. A long journey, especially by ship.
  2. A written account of a journey or travel.
    archaic
  3. journey, trip
  4. To make a voyage.
  5. The act or practice of travelling.
    obsolete
  6. A state of hallucination or altered consciousness caused by a narcotic drug.
  7. To sail across; traverse: voyaged the western ocean.
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  9. A journey undertaken with a specific objective:expedition, pilgrimage, safari, tour, trek.
  10. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  11. a usually long journey, especially by sea. The voyage to America used to take many weeks. seereis رِحْلَه пътешествие viagem plavba die (See-)Reise rejse ταξίδιviaje, travesía (mere)reis سفر matka traverséeמסע, הפלגה यात्रा जल या विमान putovanje hajóút pelayaran (langt) ferðalag (sjóferð) viaggio 航海 먼 여행 kelionė (jūra) jūras ceļojums pelayaran reisreise podróż morska ساه ( سمندري يا هوايي viagem călătorie (pe mare) путешествие plavba potovanje, plovba put resa, färd การเดินทาง deniz/uzay yolc...
    usually
  12. to make such a journey. They voyaged for many months. op reis gaan يقومُ بِرِحْلَه пътешествам viajar plavit se reisen rejse ταξιδεύωviajar (merel) reisima سفر کردن matkustaa voyager לְהַפלִיג समुद्र से यात्रा करना putovati hajózik berlayar ferðast (sjóleiðis); sigla viaggiare 航海する 여행하다 keliauti (jūra) ceļot/braukt (pa jūru, ar lidmašīnu) belayar reizenreise płynąć statkiem سفر كول ( په سمندر كې ): سفر كول ( په الوتكه كې viajar a călători (pe mare) путешествовать plaviť sa potovati putovati r...
  13. an old word for a person making a voyage, or who has made several voyages. reisiger رَحّالَه пътешественик viajante cestovatel, -ka der/die Seereisende farende θαλασσοπόρος, ταξιδευτής viajero merereisija مسافر matkaaja voyageur/-euse נוסע जलयात्री putnik hajóutas pelancong ferðalangur; sæfari viaggiatore, viaggiatrice 航海者 여행자 keliautojas ceļotājs (ar kuģi, lidmašīnu) pelayar reizigersjøfarende, reisendepodróżnik مسافر ( سمندري viajante călător мореплаватель cestovateľ, -ka, moreplavec potnik...
  14. A long journey to a foreign or distant place, especially by sea.
  15. often voyages The events of a journey of exploration or discovery considered as material for a narrative.
  16. a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air
  17. obsolete an ambitious project
    obsolete

Equivalents

Afrikaans reis
العربية الرحلة رحلة
Azərbaycanca səfər səyahət
Български пътешествам
Bosanski resa
Català viatge
Čeština plavba
Cymraeg mordaith
Deutsch Reise
Ελληνικά ταξίδι
Esperanto vojaĝo
فارسی سفر
Suomi matka
Français voyage Voyagé voyage
Gàidhlig bhòidse turas-mara
हिन्दी यात्रा
Hrvatski resa
Italiano viaggio
日本語 旅行 航海
ქართული მგზავრობა
한국어 여행 항해
Kurdî reîs
Latviešu brauciens ceļojums
Te Reo Māori wharaunga
Bahasa Melayu perjalanan
Nederlands reis
Polski rejs
Português viagem
Română călătorie
Српски resa
Svenska resa
Türkçe seyahat

Examples

“He went on a voyage to France.”
“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.”
“I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]”
“"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[.]"”
“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 […]”
“By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]”
“[...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]”

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