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{
"term": "journey",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart",
"sensetop": "on a journeyjourney from…journey to…",
"labels": "(British English)(British English)(informal)(British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They went on a long train journey across India."
},
{
"text": "to begin/continue/complete a journey"
},
{
"text": "Many refugees **made the journey** alone."
},
{
"text": "Did you have a good journey?"
},
{
"text": "the **outward/return journey**"
},
{
"text": "We broke our journey *(= stopped for a short time)* in Madrid."
},
{
"text": "Don't use the car for short journeys."
},
{
"text": "It's a day's journey by car."
},
{
"text": "The average **journey time** is about 50 minutes."
},
{
"text": "She took her sister with her to keep her company on the journey.",
"contextForm": "on a journey"
},
{
"text": "Devizes is a two-hour journey from London.",
"contextForm": "journey from…"
},
{
"text": "It is unclear why he **embarked on** his final **journey** to Vienna.",
"contextForm": "journey to…"
},
{
"text": "I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey *(= you cannot do what you have come to do)*."
},
{
"text": "Bye! **Safe journey!** *(= used when somebody is beginning a journey)*"
},
{
"text": "measures to cut the number of car journeys into the city"
},
{
"text": "He is planning a journey through Europe this summer."
},
{
"text": "People were crammed onto ships for the dangerous journey across the Atlantic."
},
{
"text": "Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey."
},
{
"text": "Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale."
},
{
"text": "She made the emotional journey back to the house she grew up in."
},
{
"text": "He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas."
},
{
"text": "Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world."
},
{
"text": "The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey."
},
{
"text": "The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours."
},
{
"text": "The journey continued in silence."
},
{
"text": "The journey takes about five hours."
},
{
"text": "They continued their journey on foot."
},
{
"text": "They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital."
},
{
"text": "They were on a journey to the Far East."
},
{
"text": "This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown."
}
],
"topics": ["Holidays"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["long", "marathon", "short"],
"verb + journey": ["go on", "have", "make"],
"journey + verb": ["take (somebody)", "begin", "end"],
"journey + noun": ["time"],
"preposition": ["on journey", "journey by", "journey of"],
"phrases": [
"be tired after a journey",
"be tired from a journey",
"a leg of a journey"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a long and often difficult process of personal change and development",
"sensetop": "journey (from something) (to something)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was excited by the character's journey in the film."
},
{
"text": "The book describes a **spiritual journey** from despair to happiness.",
"contextForm": "journey (from something) (to something)"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒɜːni/",
"audio": "jo/journey/journey__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒɜːrni/",
"audio": "jo/journey/journey__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French jornee ‘day, a day's travel, a day's work’ (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum ‘daily portion’, from diurnus ‘daily’, from dies ‘day’."
}