different between journey vs peregrinate

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.??.????ne?t/

Etymology 1

From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.

Verb

peregrinate (third-person singular simple present peregrinates, present participle peregrinating, simple past and past participle peregrinated)

1. (intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
   • 1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two [1]

     He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.

   • 2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom [2]

     As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.

2. (transitive) To travel through a specific place.
   • 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand [3]

     History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.

   • 1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine [4]

     It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.”

   • 2005, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950–2000 [5]

     Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throught my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.

Derived terms

• peregrination
• peregrine

Related terms

• pilgrim

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.

Adjective

peregrinate (comparative more peregrinate, superlative most peregrinate)

1. (rare) Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.
   • 1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book [6]

     Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.

Translations

Anagrams

• reparteeing, repartéeing, rerepeating

Italian

Verb

peregrinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of peregrinare
2. second-person plural imperative of peregrinare
3. feminine plural of peregrinato

Latin

Participle

peregr?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of peregr?n?tus