journey

 
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒəːni/

noun (plural journeys)

  • an act of travelling from one place to another: an eight-hour train journey
  • a long and often difficult process of personal change and development: her spiritual journey towards Roman Catholicism I was excited with my character’s journey in the film

verb (journeys, journeying, journeyed)

[no object, with adverbial of direction]
  • travel somewhere: they journeyed south

Derivatives

journeyer

noun

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French jornee 'day, a day's travel, a day's work' (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum 'daily portion', from diurnus (see diurnal)

Spelling rule

Make the plural of journey in the usual way, by adding -s: (journeys).