voyage

«voyage» in Mova's school dictionary: a long journey, especially by sea or in space — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a voyage, voyages); verb (voyage, voyages, voyaged, voyaging)

meaning for a pupil

1) A voyage is a long journey, especially by sea or in space. tree →

2) (verb) To voyage is to travel a long way, usually by ship. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons explorers made voyages across oceans; Captain Cook made voyages to Australia and New Zealand. In stories a voyage is an adventure at sea. In science, space probes make voyages to other planets. Phrases: go on a voyage, a sea voyage, a maiden voyage (the first trip of a new ship).

examples

• The voyage across the ocean took many weeks. tree →
• Captain Cook sailed on long voyages. tree →
• The ship sank on its maiden voyage. tree →
• The space probe began its voyage to Mars. tree →
• We read a story about a voyage to a magic island. tree →
• The sailors voyaged far from home. tree →
• After a six days' voyage they at length sighted land. tree →

note

Pronounced VOY-ij. Countable. A «voyage» is long; a short trip is a «trip» or «journey». In French «voyage» means any travel, but in English it is mostly a long sea or space journey.

In the corpora

• Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them.
• His last voyage began with «Family troubles, as usual.
• Bon voyage ! means "Have a good trip!" and can be said to anyone setting off anywhere.
• The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought.
• Cook fought scurvy with fresh food and sauerkraut and lost far fewer men to it than earlier voyages.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «voyage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.