different between journey vs wayfare

English

Etymology

From Middle English journe, jorney, from Old French jornee, from Medieval Latin diurnata (“a day's work, a day's journey, a fixed day, a day”), from Latin diurnus (“daily”), from di?s (“day”). Displaced native reys.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????ni/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ni

Noun

journey (plural journeys)

1. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

2. (figuratively) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

3. (obsolete) A day.
4. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
5. (obsolete) A day's work.
6. The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
7. (collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:journey

Translations

Verb

journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)

1. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

Synonyms

• wayfare

Translations

Further reading

• journey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• journey in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• journey at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Noun

journey

1. Alternative form of journe

English

Etymology

From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English we?farende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way +? faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?f??(?)/

Noun

wayfare (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Travel, journeying.
   • 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 13 May:

     What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.

Verb

wayfare (third-person singular simple present wayfares, present participle wayfaring, simple past wayfore or wayfared, past participle wayfaren or wayfared)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To travel; make a journey.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     A certain Laconian, as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.

   • 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, part 1, act 6, sc. 7,

     The sea is their dry land,

     And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.

Related terms

• wayfarer
• wayfaring