voyager

«voyager» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who goes on a long journey, especially by sea or… — 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 voyager, voyagers; Voyager — a name)

meaning for a pupil

1) A voyager is a person who goes on a long journey, especially by sea or into space. tree →

2) (a name) Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two space probes sent from Earth to visit the outer planets; they have now travelled further than anything else people have made, out beyond the planets. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about space, the Voyager probes flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and sent back photos, and they carry a golden record with sounds and pictures of Earth in case aliens find them. In history lessons, voyagers sailed across oceans, like the Polynesian voyagers who found New Zealand and Hawaii using the stars. Phrases: ocean voyager, space voyager, the Voyager probes, the Golden Record.

examples

• Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object. tree →
• The Voyager probes took the first close photos of Neptune. tree →
• Polynesian voyagers sailed huge distances using the stars. tree →
• The voyager kept a diary of the long sea crossing. tree →
• Voyager carries a golden record with music from Earth. tree →
• Radio signals from Voyager take many hours to reach us. tree →
• The ship's voyagers were glad to see land. tree →
• In the story, a young voyager sails to a mysterious island. tree →
• "What a sweet song that was!" exclaimed one of the voyagers. tree →

note

Countable: a voyager, voyagers. Comes from «voyage» (a long journey, especially by sea or space) + «-er». Pronounced «VOY-ij-er». Capital V when it is the name of the probe. A «voyage» is the trip; a «voyager» is the traveller.

In the corpora

• Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.
• Jupiter has faint, thin rings made of dust, discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979.
• Both are so far away that only one spacecraft has ever visited them, Voyager 2, in 1986 and 1989.
• Uranus and Neptune have each been visited only once, by Voyager 2, in 1986 and 1989.
• Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years.

Trees and pragmatics

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