journey

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

   The journey to London takes two hours by train.

2. 2
   noun

   Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

   the journey to political freedom

3. 3
   noun

   The progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.

   We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.

4. 4
   noun

   A day's work.

   But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte

5. 5
   verb

   To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

   The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.

6. 6
   name

   A female given name from English.

   Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me.

7. 7
   noun

   the act of traveling from one place to another

8. 8
   verb

   undertake a journey or trip

Etymology

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.