JOURNEYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does journeying mean? 

• JOURNEYING (noun)
  The noun JOURNEYING has 1 sense:

1. the act of traveling from one place to another

  Familiarity information: JOURNEYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOURNEYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of traveling from one place to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

journey; journeying

Hypernyms ("journeying" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Meronyms (parts of "journeying"):

leg; stage (a section or portion of a journey or course)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "journeying"):

commute (a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work)

drive; ride (a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile))

long haul (a journey over a long distance)

mush (a journey by dogsled)

odyssey (a long wandering and eventful journey)

trip (a journey for some purpose (usually including the return))

passage; transit (a journey usually by ship)

expedition (a journey organized for a particular purpose)

digression; excursion (wandering from the main path of a journey)

schlep; shlep (a tedious or difficult journey)

trek (a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers))

circuit; tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)

pilgrim's journey; pilgrimage (a journey to a sacred place)

excursion; expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay (a journey taken for pleasure)

voyage (a journey to some distant place)

way (a journey or passage)

Derivation:

journey (undertake a journey or trip)

 Context examples 

The cavaliers could not but pull up their horses to look at them, for a stranger pair were never seen journeying together.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I see myself, with Agnes at my side, journeying along the road of life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That she is still journeying somewhere is apparent, for Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report at sunrise was still the same.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When the horseman came up, he proved to be a student, a merry fellow, who was journeying along on his nag, and singing as he went.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By Saint Paul! lisped Sir Nigel, this is certainly a man whom it is worth journeying far to know.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remembered also the necessity imposed upon me of either journeying to England or entering into a long correspondence with those philosophers of that country whose knowledge and discoveries were of indispensable use to me in my present undertaking.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring her, he came to a fine castle; and around the castle was a garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer-time and in the other half winter.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Yet from time to time Alleyne met other wayfarers, and more than once was overtaken by strings of pack mules and horsemen journeying in the same direction as himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)