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What does "journey" mean?

Journey: Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
  2. 3.To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii.
  3. 4.To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] "I journeyed many a land." Sir W. Scott.

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