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# voyage

«voyage» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long journey, especially by sea or in space** — 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 voyage, voyages); verb (voyage, voyages, voyaged, voyaging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A voyage is a long journey, especially by sea or in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#m1)

2) (verb) To voyage is to travel a long way, usually by ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons explorers made voyages across oceans; Captain Cook made voyages to Australia and New Zealand. In stories a voyage is an adventure at sea. In science, space probes make voyages to other planets. Phrases: go on a voyage, a sea voyage, a maiden voyage (the first trip of a new ship).

### examples

- The voyage across the ocean took many weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x1)
- Captain Cook sailed on long voyages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x2)
- The ship sank on its maiden voyage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x3)
- The space probe began its voyage to Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x4)
- We read a story about a voyage to a magic island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x5)
- The sailors voyaged far from home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x6)
- After a six days' voyage they at length sighted land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voyage/#x7)

### note

Pronounced VOY-ij. Countable. A «voyage» is long; a short trip is a «trip» or «journey». In French «voyage» means any travel, but in English it is mostly a long sea or space journey.

### In the corpora

- [Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/10/)
- [His last voyage began with «Family troubles, as usual.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/22/)
- [Bon voyage ! means "Have a good trip!" and can be said to anyone setting off anywhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/14/)
- [The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/11/)
- [Cook fought scurvy with fresh food and sauerkraut and lost far fewer men to it than earlier voyages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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