journey

1. 1.

   the act of traveling from one place to another

   Synonymsjourneying

   Broadertravel

   Narrowercommutedrivelong haulmushodysseytrippassageexpeditiondigressionschlep

   Partsstage

Other forms of journey

plural

journeys·

past tense

journeyed·

present participle

journeying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about journey

What does journey mean?

journey means "undertake a journey or trip". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in journey?

journey has 2 syllables: jour-ney. The stress falls on "jour". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɝni/.

What is another word for journey?

Close synonyms include travel, travel, journeying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is journey a common word?

journey is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.