journey
part of speech
noun (journey, journeys); verb (journey, journeys, journeyed, journeying)
meaning for a pupil
1) A journey is a trip from one place to another, often a long one. tree →
2) A journey is also a long time of change or learning: «her journey to become a doctor». tree →
3) To journey is to travel (in stories or formal writing). tree →
sense in the lessons
a trip with a distance and a time; parts of a journey are added, or the rest of it is found by taking away; in everyday life: the journey to school, car journeys, train journeys; in stories: heroes go on long journeys and quests; phrases: «a long journey», «on a journey», «journey time», «safe journey!»
examples
- The journey is 240 kilometres long. tree →
- They drove 90 km of the journey before lunch. tree →
- The journey took 3 hours. tree →
- How much of the journey is left? tree →
- My journey to school takes 15 minutes on foot. tree →
- Have a safe journey! tree →
- The hobbits went on a long journey. tree →
- We played games on the train journey. tree →
- Learning to read is a journey that takes time. tree →
- The journey began--the journey to Paris. tree →
note
Signals distance or time as a whole: the whole journey = the sum of its parts; the part left = whole minus the part done. Trap: a return journey doubles the distance. Plural: journeys (vowel + y, just add s).
In the corpora
- The whole journey of a meal through the gut usually takes about one to three days.
- Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster.
- Eat smelly food before or after a journey, because strong smells bother people in a small space.
- «Double car journeys, more like,» says Frida, grinning anyway.
- Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and plans can sometimes change.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «journey» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.