jour·ney (jûr'nē)
n., pl., -neys.

1. 1. The act of traveling from one place to another; a trip.
   2. A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip: a 2,000-mile journey to the Pacific; the three-day journey home.
2. A process or course likened to traveling; a passage: the journey of life.

v., -neyed, -ney·ing, -neys.

v.intr.
To make a journey; travel.

v.tr.
To travel over or through.

[Middle English journei, day, day's travel, journey, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, day, from neuter of Latin diurnus, of a day, from diēs, day. See diary.]

journeyer jour'ney·er n.

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