Voyage

n. [Fr. voyage, O. Fr. voiage, voiaige, veïage, Pr. viatge, Sp. viage, It. viaggio, L. Lat. viaticum, from Lat. viaticum, traveling-money, provision for a journey, from viaticus, belonging to a road or journey. See VIATIC.]

1Sense 1. Originally, a passage on the way; a journey in general; but now chiefly confined 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.

So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton.

I love a sea-voyage and a blustering tempest. Beau. & Fl.

2Sense 2. The practice of traveling. [Obs.]

Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts. Bacon.

3Sense 3. Course; way. [Obs.]

☞ As a in the unaccented termination age, often sinks, in pronunciation, into the sound of short ĭ (See Prin. of Pron., § 45), and as the first syllable of the present word ends with the same sound, the vowel of the termination is apt to be omitted, and the word pronounced voj, in one syllable, though some, aiming to keep it a dis-syllable, say vōy'āj.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. VOYAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. VOYAGING.] [Fr. voyager.] To take a voyage or journey; especially, to sail or pass by water.

*A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Wordsworth.*

v. t. To travel; to pass over. I with pain Voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton.