The word “journey” is a noun that means “the act of going from one place to another.” But, we use it in two specific ways: One is to talk about a trip that takes a long time, especially if there are either difficulties or discoveries in transit.
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A journey is the distance travelled from the origin to the final destination. A journey might involve several trips using different transport modes. The sum of these trips will make up one journey.
: something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another. the journey from youth to maturity. a journey through time. 2. : an act or instance of traveling from one place to another : trip.
The Latin word dies means day, and diurnus means of a day. From the word diurnus came the early French jour, meaning day, and journee, meaning a day's work, a day's travel. Journee was borrowed into Middle English with both of its meanings, but only the second one, a day's travel, came into widespread use.
Trip is the general word, indicating going any distance and returning, by walking or any means of locomotion, for either business or pleasure, and in either a hurried or a leisurely manner: a trip to Europe; a vacation trip; a bus trip.
More frequent trips allow you to take regular breaks from work. Research shows that the ideal length of time for a vacation is between eight and eleven days, with eight days being the true sweet spot.
Word forms: itineraries plural. countable noun. An itinerary is a plan of a trip, including the route and the places that you will visit. The next place on our itinerary was Sedona.
2 activate, embark upon, engender, enter upon, get going, get (something) off the ground (informal) get the ball rolling, initiate, instigate, kick off (informal) kick-start, make a beginning, open, originate, put one's hand to the plough (informal) set about, set in motion, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling ...