| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | voy·age |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  voi  j |
| NOUN: | 1. A long journey to a foreign or distant place, especially by sea. 2a. The events of a journey of exploration or discovery considered as material for a narrative. Often used in the plural. b. Such a narrative. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: voy·aged, voy·ag·ing, voy·ag·es
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To make a voyage. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To sail across; traverse: voyaged the western ocean. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French veyage, from Late Latin vi ticum, a journey, from Latin, provisions for a journey, from neuter of viticus, of a journey, from via, road. See wegh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | voyag·er —NOUN
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