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voyager

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voy·age  (voij)
n.
1. A long journey to a foreign or distant place, especially by sea.
2.
a. The events of a journey of exploration or discovery considered as material for a narrative. Often used in the plural.
b. Such a narrative.
v. voy·aged, voy·ag·ing, voy·ag·es
v.intr.
To make a voyage.
v.tr.
To sail across; traverse: voyaged the western ocean.

[Middle English, from Old French veyage, from Late Latin viticum, a journey, from Latin, provisions for a journey, from neuter of viticus, of a journey, from via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

voyag·er n.

Voyager [ˈvɔɪədʒə]
n
(Astronautics) either of two US spacecraft that studied the outer solar system; Voyager 1 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980), Voyager 2 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1981) and made the first flyby of Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.voyagervoyager - a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)
traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
Translations
voyager [ˈvɔɪədʒəʳ] Nviajero/a m/f (por mar)
voyager [ˈvɔɪɪdʒər] nvoyageur/euse m/f
voyager
nPassagier(in) m(f); (Space) → Raumfahrer(in) m(f)
voyager [ˈvɔɪədʒəʳ] nviaggiatore/trice
voyager [ˈvɔɪədʒəʳ] nviaggiatore/trice


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Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.
He may have been forty years old, and he was a great voyager on the inland sea.
This is one of the characteristics of the middle and lower part of the Missouri; but still more so of the Mississippi, whose rapid current traverses a succession of latitudes so as in a few days to float the voyager almost from the frozen regions to the tropics.
 
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