journey

jour|ney¹ W2S3 [ˈdʒə:ni US -ə:r-] n

[Date: 1100-1200; : Old French; Origin: journee 'day's journey', from jour 'day', from Latin diurnus; JOURNAL]

1.) especially BrE a time spent travelling from one place to another, especially over a long distance

American Equivalent: tripjourney to/from/between

▪ my journey to China

▪ a long slow journey from Odessa

journey through/across etc

▪ our journey across Europe

▪ the friends they made on the journey

▪ I still use my car, but now I make fewer journeys .

▪ We are going on a journey to a strange country.

▪ We broke our journey to have a picnic.

▪ the six-hour train journey home from London

▪ The return journey was uneventful.

▪ Have a safe journey .

▪ To avoid a wasted journey , ring the number below to check that the event is still on.

▪ On Thursday we set off on the final leg of our journey.

see usage note ↑travel²

2.) literary a long and often difficult process by which someone or something changes and develops

▪ our journey through life

▪ The novel is an account of his spiritual journey.

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COLLOCATES for sense 1

make a journey

go on a journey (=make a long journey)

break a journey British English (=make a short stop in a journey)

car/train/bus journey

outward journey (=a journey to a place)

return journey (=a journey home from a place)

safe journey (=used especially to wish someone a good journey)

wasted journey (=one that did not achieve the result you wanted)

leg of a journey (=one part of a journey)

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journey ²

journey² v [I always + adverb/preposition]

literary to travel

▪ They left the town and journeyed south.