1
: an act or instance of traveling : journey
2
: a course or period of traveling by other than land routes
a long sea voyage
3
: an account of a journey especially by sea
Synonyms
Examples of voyage in a Sentence
Noun
The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage.
He wrote about his many voyages into the South Seas.
a manned voyage to Mars
Verb
They voyaged to distant lands.
He spent his youth voyaging around the globe.
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Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
Space aficionados often compare the drive to explore other worlds to the impulse that sent humans on voyages around the world, depicting our forebears’ curiosity about our own planet as an innate imperative curiosity that defines us as an alpha species.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Brad Japhe, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Around the same time, voyaging societies launched in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
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Noun
There’s also balance, with sweeping, powerfully dynamic, and quite honestly brilliant group scenes layering World War II battlefields and the ballet studio or depicting the wavering hopefulness of wartime nurses and beleaguered soldiers awaiting the voyage home at the French port of Dunkirk.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
Space aficionados often compare the drive to explore other worlds to the impulse that sent humans on voyages around the world, depicting our forebears’ curiosity about our own planet as an innate imperative curiosity that defines us as an alpha species.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Verb
Attendees learned some pointers to help them in that particularly pesky endeavor, while Zoeller regaled them with tales of his whiskey voyages across the seven seas.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Around the same time, voyaging societies launched in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Voyage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voyage. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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