voyage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an act of traveling by water
    ocean trip.
  2. noun a journey to some distant place
  3. verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
    sail; navigate.
    • The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow

WordNet

Voy"age noun
Etymology
OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.
Definitions
  1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
    I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher.
    So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton.
    All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Shak.
  2. The act or practice of traveling. Obs.
    Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. Bacon.
  3. Course; way. Obs. Shak.
Voy"age intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. voyager.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Voyaged ; present participle & verbal noun Voyaging
Definitions
  1. To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
    A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Wordsworth.
Voy"age transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
    With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton.

Webster 1913