journey – English noun declension

English noun forms of journey

Noun: journey
Singularjourney
Pluraljourneys

Sample Sentences

  • The journey to London takes two hours by train.
  • “Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb
  • Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad? [1807, William Wordsworth, “Star Gazers”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 88:]
  • the journey to political freedom
  • my journey of dealing with grief
  • Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. [2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:]
  • That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says. [2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:]
  • We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.
  • a customer journey
  • But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:]
  • Luckily, we saw journeys of giraffes countless times during our six days on safari in South Africa. [2012 October 11, Elizabeth Yardley Pennridge High School, Burlington County Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:]
  • Rolande Bragg (7 December 2023), “The Riding Romance”, in capocagin (Usenet): “Don't be surprised to see elephants or a journey of giraffes pass you from this high point. We rode here for a treehouse brunch and encountered a few elephants along the way.”
  • Josette King (15 April 2012), “Postcard from Eden”, in JosetteKing.com, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024: “But Apollo awaits, eager to shown me crowned cranes dancing their mating dance in the morning sun, prides of lions lounging in the reeds, journeys of giraffes strutting across the plain and birds galore.”

Etymology

From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru. See: Middle English Nouns 'journe', Latin Nouns 'diurnus'.