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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : jur-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɜr ni

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Définition of journeys

Origin :
  • c.1200, "a defined course of traveling; one's path in life," from Old French journee "day's work or travel" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin diurnum "day," noun use of neuter of Latin diurnus "of one day" (see diurnal). Meaning "act of traveling by land or sea" is c.1300. In Middle English it also meant "a day" (c.1400); a day's work (mid-14c.); "distance traveled in one day" (mid-13c.), and as recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day."
  • noun excursion
  • verb travel
Example sentences :
  • The problem of days' journeys was not pressing at this moment.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • But, it was not to hear these, any more than the powerful class, that I made my Sunday journeys.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • They were journeys of curiosity to the numerous churches in the City of London.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • It was while on one of these journeys that he was made a prisoner.
  • Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
  • They are intended for desserts, and are also useful as a stomachic, to carry in the pocket on journeys, and for gouty stomachs.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And a little later she had gone on the longest of all journeys.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • You spoke frequently of him when describing your journeys to and from Cairo.
  • Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty
  • These journeys to Italy had a considerable influence on Chaucer's mind.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand
  • His coat of mail, his deeds, his journeys, his name: all are smoke.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand

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