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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Voyage \Voy"age\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Voyaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voyaging}.] [Cf. F. voyager.] To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Voyage \Voy"age\ (?; 48), noun [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See {Way}, noun, and cf. {Convey}, {Deviate}, {Devious}, {Envoy}, {Trivial}, {Viaduct}, {Viaticum}.]

1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited 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.

I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. --J. Fletcher.

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

All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. --Shak.

2. The act or practice of traveling. [Obs.]

Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. --Bacon.

3. Course; way. [Obs.] --Shak.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Voyage \Voy"age\, verb (used with an object) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. --Milton.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

voyage

noun

1: an act of traveling by water [syn: {ocean trip}]

2: a journey to some distant place

verb: travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: {sail}, {navigate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "voyage": boat, campaign, canoe, carry sail, circuit, circumnavigate, coast, course, cover, cross, crossing, cruise, do, excursion, expedition, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go by ship, go on safari, go on shipboard, go over, go overseas, go to sea, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, leg, make a journey, make a passage, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, measure, motorboat, navigate, ocean trip, outing, overpass, package tour, pass over, pass through, passage, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, ply, progress, range, range over, range the world, reconnoiter, round trip, row, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sally, scour, scour the country, scout, scull, sea trip, seafare, shakedown cruise, shoot, sight-see, stalk, steam, steamboat, sweep, take a trip, take a voyage, take the road, tour, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, trek, trip, turn, wayfare, yacht

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