Voyageとは意味・読み方・使い方

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

voyage (複数形 voyages)

1. A long journey, especially by ship.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126, column 1:

     There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.

   • 1621 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, OCLC 1015511273, Act V, scene vi, page 467, column 2:

     I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]

   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:

     "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
     on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
     so many changing skies their manhood tried,
     such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"

2. (archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.
   • 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v:

     I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]

   • 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1:

     By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]

3. (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 12, OCLC 1044372886:

     [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]

同意語

• adventure
• exploration
• expedition
• excursion
• journey
• tour
• vacation

派生語

• maiden voyage
• voyage of the damned

関連する語

• envoy

動詞

voyage (三人称単数 現在形 voyages, 現在分詞 voyaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 voyaged)

1. (intransitive) To go on a long journey.
   • 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude

     A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

   • 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, OCLC 1514723, stanza 9, page 322:

     O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

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