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Definition of voyage noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• an around-the-world voyage
• a voyage in space
• The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage (= first journey) .
• (figurative) Going to college can be a voyage of self-discovery.
• Darwin’s epic voyage of exploration
• reconnaissance
• Lady Franklin kept a journal during the voyage.
• The ship completed her maiden voyage in May.
• There were mainly scientists on the voyage.
• Bering's voyage of discovery was one of many scientific expeditions in the 18th century.
• The ship began its return voyage to Europe.
• The ship was badly damaged during the voyage from Plymouth.
• They set off on their voyage around the world.
• Writing a biography can be an absorbing voyage of discovery.
• during a/​the voyage
• on a/​the voyage
• voyage from
• a voyage of discovery

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 voyage

nom masculin

(latin viaticum, provisions de route)

• 1.  Action de voyager, de se rendre ou d'être transporté en un autre lieu ; trajet ainsi fait : Le voyage se fera par bateau. Ressentir les fatigues du voyage.

Synonymes :

allée et venue - aller et retour - navette - va-et-vient

circuit - croisière - déplacement - excursion - pérégrinations - périple - tour - tournée

• 4.   Littéraire. Exploration, découverte, description de quelque chose qu'on suit comme un parcours : Ce livre est un voyage dans l'âme d'un condamné.
• 5.  État hallucinatoire provoqué par l'usage d'une drogue, en particulier le L.S.D.

Expressions avec voyage

Agence de voyages,, article de voyage,, faire le grand voyage,, gens du voyage,, voyage au long cours,, difficultés de voyage.

ORTHOGRAPHE

On écrit voyages au pluriel dans agent de voyages, agence de voyages  ; au singulier dans un récit de voyage, partir en voyage .

Citations avec voyage

• Charles Baudelaire (Paris 1821-Paris 1867) Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage ! Les Fleurs du Mal , le Voyage
• Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, 1873-Paris 1954) Le voyage n'est nécessaire qu'aux imaginations courtes. Belles Saisons , Galerie Charpentier
• René Descartes (La Haye, aujourd'hui Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, 1596-Stockholm 1650) Lorsqu'on emploie trop de temps à voyager on devient enfin étranger en son pays. Discours de la méthode
• René Descartes (La Haye, aujourd'hui Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, 1596-Stockholm 1650) C'est quasi le même de converser avec ceux des autres siècles que de voyager. Discours de la méthode
• Théophile Gautier (Tarbes 1811-Neuilly 1872) Le voyage est un maître aux préceptes amers […]. España
• Jean Mallard de La Varende (Le Chamblac, Eure, 1887-Paris 1959) L'enfance est un voyage oublié. Le Centaure de Dieu , Grasset
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (Bruxelles 1908-Paris 2009) Ce que d'abord vous nous montrez, voyages, c'est notre ordure lancée au visage de l'humanité. Tristes Tropiques , Plon
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (Bruxelles 1908-Paris 2009) Un voyage s'inscrit simultanément dans l'espace, dans le temps, et dans la hiérarchie sociale. Tristes Tropiques , Plon
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1533-château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1592) Je réponds ordinairement à ceux qui me demandent raison de mes voyages : que je sais bien ce que je fuis, mais non pas ce que je cherche. Essais , III, 9
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1533-château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1592) […] frotter et limer notre cervelle contre celle d'autrui * . Essais , I, 26 * en voyageant à l'étranger
• Paul Nizan (Tours 1905-Audruicq, Pas-de-Calais, 1940) Le voyage est une suite de disparitions irréparables. Aden-Arabie , Maspero

Commentaire Valery Larbaud a fait de ce vers le titre d'un de ses essais, repris dans son recueil Jaune, bleu, blanc .

• Isaac Félix, dit André Suarès (Marseille 1868-Saint-Maur-des-Fossés 1948) Le voyageur est encore ce qui importe le plus dans un voyage. Le Voyage du condottiere , Émile-Paul
• Varron en latin Marcus Terentius Varro (Reate, aujourd'hui Rieti, 116-27 avant J.-C.) Dans un voyage, le plus long est d'arriver à la porte. Économie rurale , I, 2, 2 Porta itineri longissima.

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adjective as in en route

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• heading toward
• making headway
• on the road
• pressing on
• progressing

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Example sentences.

What did he care how much he wasted, since he was en voyage and riding for the first time in his life in an automobile.

The Arab trader, the chief of the trading caravan, and the city merchant en voyage, be he Arab.

A sanitary commissioner would have condemned it, but en voyage comme en voyage.

By the way, he promised us a last edition of Smoke en voyage.

We turned to see a fresh-faced girl, who addressed this remark to the typical John Bull en voyage.

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Words related to en voyage are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word en voyage . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

adjective as in on the way to destination

On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to en voyage, such as: advancing, bound, driving, entrained, flying, and heading toward.

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Definition of bon voyage

• congee
• good-by

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Word History

French, literally, good journey!

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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French, literally, "good journey"

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• 1.4.1 Conjugation
• 1.4.2 Translations
• 2.1 Etymology
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English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ].

From Middle English viage , borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage , from Latin viaticum . The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage . Doublet of viaticum .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

• IPA ( key ) : /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Noun [ edit ]

voyage ( plural voyages )

• 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare , “ The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies   [ … ] ( First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed [ ward ] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act IV, scene iii ] , page 126 , column 1: There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.
• 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher , “ The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy ”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies.   [ … ] , [ part 1 ] , London: [ … ] J [ ohn ] Macock [ and H. Hills ] , for John Martyn , Henry Herringman , and Richard Marriot , published 1679 , →OCLC , Act V, scene vi, page 467 , column 2: I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]
• 1880 , Richard Francis Burton , Os Lusíadas , volume I, page 23 : "And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
• 1690 , “ The Preface to the Reader ”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies , London: Randal Taylor, page v: I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard [ … ]
• 1690 , “ A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French ”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies , London: Randal Taylor, page 1: By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years [ … ]
• 1631 , Francis [Bacon] , “ New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished. ”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.   [ … ] , 3rd edition, London: [ … ] William Rawley ; [ p ] rinted by J [ ohn ] H [ aviland ] for William Lee   [ … ] , page 12 , →OCLC : [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]

Synonyms [ edit ]

• exploration

Derived terms [ edit ]

• maiden voyage
• nom de voyage
• not wanted on voyage
• voyage data recorder
• voyage of the damned

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Translations [ edit ], verb [ edit ].

voyage ( third-person singular simple present voyages , present participle voyaging , simple past and past participle voyaged )

• 1850 , William Wordsworth , The Prelude : A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
• 1870 , Walt Whitman , “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass   [ … ] , Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher ,   [ … ] , published 1892 , →OCLC , stanza 9, page 322 : O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

Conjugation [ edit ]

† Archaic or obsolete .

French [ edit ]

Inherited from Old French voiage , viage , veiage , from Latin viāticum . Doublet of viatique .

• IPA ( key ) : /vwa.jaʒ/
• ( Louisiana ) IPA ( key ) : [vo.jaʒ] , [(v)wɒ.jaʒ]
• Homophones : voyagent , voyages
• Hyphenation: vo‧yage
• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

voyage   m ( plural voyages )

• trip , travel
• first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive
• second-person singular imperative
• agence de voyages
• gens de voyage
• récit de voyage
• voyage d’affaires
• voyage dans le temps
• voyage de noces

Further reading [ edit ]

• “ voyage ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

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Définition de voyage ​​​ Votre navigateur ne prend pas en charge audio. nom masculin

Synonymes de voyage nom masculin.

excursion , circuit , périple , tour , balade ( familier ) , virée ( familier ) , [ par mer ] croisière , traversée , [ scientifique ] exploration , expédition

trajet , aller (et retour) , cheminement , itinéraire , parcours

déplacement , route , tournée

va-et-vient , allées et venues , navette

défonce ( familier ) , trip

Synonymes de être toujours en voyage

être toujours par monts et par vaux , être toujours en vadrouille ( familier )

Synonymes de organisateur de voyages

[ recommandation officielle ] tour-opérateur

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• acciaccatura
• pas de deux
• the Internationale
• vivacissimo

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• Flora's voice wished me " bon voyage " in a most friendly but tremulous tone.  
• He wished us bon voyage, removed his hand, and we were off.  
• It's best to say 'good-bye' and 'bon voyage' right here.  
• Numerous devoted friends were on hand to say good bye and "bon voyage", but they were permitted only on the dock.  
• There was a short drive to the river amid polite calls of "good-bye" and " bon voyage," and there lay the Mayflower, like a great white bird with comfortably folded wings.  

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