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travel, journey or trip?
The noun travel is a general word which means the activity of traveling.
Air travel has become much cheaper.
Use journey to talk about when you travel from one place to another.
He fell asleep during the train journey.
Did you have a good journey?
Did you have a good travel?
A trip is a journey in which you visit a place for a short time and come back again.
a business trip
a 3-day trip to Spain
journey
the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle:
It's a two-hour train journey from York to London.
I love going on long journeys.
We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Edinburgh before travelling on to Inverness the next day.
Have a safe journey!
FIGURATIVE He views his life as a spiritual journey towards a greater understanding of his faith.
journey [I usually + adverb or preposition] LITERARY
to travel somewhere:
As we journeyed south, the landscape became drier and rockier.
way or journey?
Way refers only to the route that you take to get from one place to another.
Is there another way out of here?
I must get a paper on my way home.
To talk more generally about the length of the route or the time it takes, use the word journey.
a car/train/long journey
Verbs go on / make / take / undertake a journey
We made the journey to Darwin by coach.
begin / complete / continue / embark on a journey
After lunch, we continued our journey.
a journey begins
Our journey began in Arizona.
break your journey
They decided to break their journey in Singapore.
Typesa bus / car / coach / rail / train journey
There will be a short coach journey to your hotel.
a personal / political / spiritual journey
For him, this victory is the greatest step on a political journey that began at the end of the war.
Adjectivesan arduous / dangerous / difficult / gruelling / hazardous / perilous / treacherous journey
The journey across the mountains was hazardous and exhausting.
a good / pleasant / safe journey
I hope you had a pleasant journey.
an epic / long / short journey
You must be tired after your long journey.
a wasted journey
Bob's not here - I'm sorry you've had a wasted journey.
[a two/three, etc] -hour / -day / -mile journey
They made the four-day journey to the nearest town on horseback.
a homeward / outward / return journey
Our homeward journey was uneventful.
a circuitous / tortuous journey
We accompanied them on their tortuous journey through the city.
Prepositions a journey across / along / down / into / through somewhere
Their journey across the desert took several days.
a journey between / from / to somewhere
They made the journey to Oslo.
during / on a journey
I met him during a journey across the Alps.
a journey by [train/road, etc]
An eight-day journey by car took us into Mongolia.
Adverbsthe journey back / home
We caught a plane for the journey home.
Nounsa leg / part / stage of a journey
The first part of the journey was made on foot.
the end of a journey
We have come to the end of our journey.
a journey of discovery / exploration / life / self-discovery
Writing this book has been a journey of self-discovery.
journey time
You can expect a journey time of around 4 hours.
trip (JOURNEY) /trIp/ noun [C]
a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again:
The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train.
Do you want to go on the school trip to France this year?
I thought we might hire a motorboat and take a trip round/around the bay.
MAINLY UK We can't afford another trip abroad this year.
It's a 10-mile trip from the airport to the city centre.
She's away on a business trip and won't be back until next week.
I was thinking we might go on a shopping trip to Oxford on Saturday.
day trip noun [C]
a visit to a place in which you go there and come back on the same day:
Do you fancy coming on a day trip to Bath next Saturday?
road trip noun [C] US
If someone, especially a sports team, takes a road trip, they travel to other places to play games against other teams or for business reasons.
round trip noun [C]
If you make a round trip, you go on a journey and return to where you started from.
excursion [C]
a short journey usually made for pleasure, often by a group of people:
This year's annual excursion will be to Lincoln.
Next week we're going on an excursion.
APEX
ABBREVIATION FOR Advance Purchase Excursion: a system of cheap travel tickets which must be bought a particular number of days before travelling:
an APEX fare
voyage noun [C]
a long journey, especially by ship:
He was a young sailor on his first sea voyage.
FIGURATIVE The first year of a loving relationship is a voyage (= period) of discovery.
voyage verb OLD USE OR LITERARY
to travel:
In their little boat they planned to voyage to distant lands.
voyager noun [C]
a person who goes on a long and sometimes dangerous voyage:
Those voyagers who first ventured into space certainly showed courage.
crossing noun [C]
1 a place where something such as a road can be crossed safely, or a place where a road and a railway meet and cross each other:
a border/river crossing
2 a journey across something such as a sea, from one side to the other:
We had a really rough crossing - I was sick three times.
tour noun
1 [C] a visit to a place or area, especially one during which you look round the place or area and learn about it:
We went on a guided tour of/UK ALSO round the cathedral/museum/factory.
A bus took us on a sightseeing tour of the city.
a tour guide
2 [C] a journey made for pleasure, especially as a holiday, visiting several different places in an area:
a cycling tour of Provence
They've just come back from a tour of/UK ALSO round Devon and Cornwall.
Tour operators (= companies which arrange holidays for people) have reported a drop in bookings.
3 [C or U] a planned visit to several places in a country or area made for a special purpose, such as by a politician, sports team or group of entertainers:
a lecture/concert tour
The Queen is making a two-week tour of Australia.
She is performing in Birmingham tonight, on the third leg of (= stage of) her nationwide tour.
The England cricket team is currently on tour in Pakistan.
tour verb
1 [I or T] to go on a tour somewhere:
[+ preposition] We spent a month touring (around/round/in) Kenya.
The New Zealand team will be touring (in) Europe this winter.
The President toured US military bases yesterday.
The band are currently touring to promote their new album.
2 [T] If a play tours a particular area, it is performed in several places there:
The play will be performed first in London, and will then tour the rest of the country.
package tour noun [C] (UK ALSO package holiday, AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH ALSO holiday package)
a holiday at a fixed price in which the travel company arranges your travel, hotels and sometimes meals for you:
We bought a cheap package tour to Spain and stayed in a big hotel by the sea.
whistle-stop tour noun [C]
a series of brief visits to different places, made usually by a politician
jaunt noun [C]
a short journey for pleasure, sometimes including a stay:
a Sunday jaunt into the hills
foray (VISIT) noun [C]
a short visit, especially with a known purpose:
I made a quick foray into town before lunch to get my sister a present.
grand "tour noun [C]
1 (ALSO Grand Tour) a visit to the most important countries and cities of Europe which rich young people made in the past as part of their education
2 OFTEN HUMOROUS when someone shows you round a house or other building:
Let me give you a grand tour of the house.
expedition noun [C]
1 an organized journey for a particular purpose:
We're going on a shopping expedition on Saturday.
Scott died while he was on an expedition to the Antarctic in 1912.
2 the people, vehicles, animals, etc. taking part in an expedition:
The British expedition to Mount Everest is leaving next month.
junket noun [C] DISAPPROVING
a journey or visit made for pleasure by an official, which is paid for by someone else or is paid for with public money
layover noun [C]
US FOR stopover (= a short stay between parts of a journey, especially a plane journey):
We had a four-hour layover in Chicago.
long-haul adjective [before noun]
travelling a long distance:
a long-haul flight
haul (PERIOD OF TIME) noun [C]
1 a journey, often a difficult one:
From there it was a long haul/only a short haul (= long and difficult/short and easy journey) back to our camp.
It was a long haul (= It took a long time and was difficult), but the alterations to the house are finished at last.
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