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# journey

«journey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a trip from one place to another, often a long one** — 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 (journey, journeys); verb (journey, journeys, journeyed, journeying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A journey is a trip from one place to another, often a long one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#m1)

2) A journey is also a long time of change or learning: «her journey to become a doctor». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#m2)

3) To journey is to travel (in stories or formal writing). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a trip with a distance and a time; parts of a journey are added, or the rest of it is found by taking away; in everyday life: the journey to school, car journeys, train journeys; in stories: heroes go on long journeys and quests; phrases: «a long journey», «on a journey», «journey time», «safe journey!»

### examples

- The journey is 240 kilometres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x1)
- They drove 90 km of the journey before lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x2)
- The journey took 3 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x3)
- How much of the journey is left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x4)
- My journey to school takes 15 minutes on foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x5)
- Have a safe journey! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x6)
- The hobbits went on a long journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x7)
- We played games on the train journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x8)
- Learning to read is a journey that takes time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x9)
- The journey began--the journey to Paris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/#x10)

### note

Signals distance or time as a whole: the whole journey = the sum of its parts; the part left = whole minus the part done. Trap: a return journey doubles the distance. Plural: journeys (vowel + y, just add s).

### In the corpora

- [The whole journey of a meal through the gut usually takes about one to three days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/17/)
- [Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/7/)
- [Eat smelly food before or after a journey, because strong smells bother people in a small space.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/11/)
- [«Double car journeys, more like,» says Frida, grinning anyway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/38/)
- [Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and plans can sometimes change.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/45/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «journey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.