- journey
- noun ⇨ See also ↑tripADJECTIVE▪ long, marathon (esp. BrE)▪ short (esp. BrE)▪ outward (esp. BrE)▪ homeward, return, round-trip (AmE)▪ onward (esp. BrE)▪
The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
▪ bus, car, rail, train, etc. (all esp. BrE)▪ five-mile, four-hour, etc.▪ comfortable, easy, good, pleasant, safe (all esp. BrE)▪Did you have a good journey?
▪Bye! Safe journey!
▪ arduous, difficult, gruelling/grueling (esp. BrE), hard, harrowing, tedious, terrible, tiring, tortuous (BrE)▪ dangerous, hazardous, perilous, treacherous▪ overland▪ cross-country▪ daily (esp. BrE)▪ overnight▪ epic▪an epic journey across Africa on foot
▪ amazing, fantastic, incredible▪Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world.
▪ wasted (BrE)▪The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted journey.
▪He wasn't there and we had a wasted journey.
▪ emotional, inner, intellectual, personal, sentimental, spiritual▪He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
▪The development of her poetry reflects her inner spiritual journey.
VERB + JOURNEY▪ go on, have, make, undertake▪Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale.
▪ break (BrE)▪We broke our return journey in Bangkok.
▪ begin, set out on▪ continue, resume▪They continued their journey on foot.
▪ complete, finish▪ survive▪They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital.
▪ chart, chronicle, describe, recount▪He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas.
JOURNEY + VERB▪ take (sb)▪His journey took him across central Asia.
▪The journey takes about five hours. (BrE)
▪ begin▪ end▪ continue▪The journey continued in silence.
JOURNEY + NOUN▪ time (esp. BrE)PREPOSITION▪ on journey▪They were on a journey to the Far East.
▪ journey by▪a journey by air, bus, land, sea, etc.
▪ journey of▪a journey of 300 miles
▪a journey of five days
▪ journey across, journey between, journey through▪ journey from, journey to▪The journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
▪ journey down, journey up▪the journey down the Rhine
PHRASES▪ be tired after a journey, be tired from a journey▪ a leg of a journey, a stage of a journey▪Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
▪ a journey into the unknown▪This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
