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journey

noun
/ˈd͡ʒɝni/US/ˈd͡ʒɜːni/UK

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.

  1. derived from diurnus
  2. derived from diurnum
  3. derived from *diurnāta✻
  4. derived from jornee
  5. inherited from journe

Definitions

  1. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit

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

    • The journey to London takes two hours by train.
    • “Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb
    • Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?

  2. Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves…

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

    • the journey to political freedom
    • my journey of dealing with grief
    • Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.

  3. 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.
    • a customer journey
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A day.

    2. A day's travelling

      A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.

    3. A day's work.

    4. The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.

    5. A group of giraffes.

    6. Life on Earth.

    7. 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.

    8. The total time spent melting and working one piece.

    9. A female given name from English.

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

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Derived

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, journeyer, journeylike, journeyman, journeyperson, journeywoman, journeywork, memory journey, microjourney, outjourney, Sabbath-day's journey, wedding journey

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at journey. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at journey. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at journey

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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