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• daily passenger
• day-tripper
• grief tourist
• holidaymaker
• peripatetic
• super-commuter

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From voyage +‎ -er .

Pronunciation

voyager ( plural voyagers )

• 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic ‎ [1] : This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers .

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• IPA ( key ) : /vwa.ja.ʒe/
• 1986 , Desireless (lyrics and music), “Voyage, Voyage”, in François : Voyage, voyage / Plus loin que la nuit et le jour (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / Dans l’espace inouï de l’amour Voyage, voyage / Further than the night and the day (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / In the unheard-of space of love

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voyage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/ ). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger , such as neiger and manger .

Derived terms

• machine à voyager dans le temps
• voyageotter

Further reading

• “ voyager ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012 .

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voyager ( English)

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• A person who voyages , traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.

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▾  translations, voyager ( french), pronunciation.

• IPA: /vwa.ja.ʒe/

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There are fears of a coronavirus outbreak onboard an Antarctic voyager ship with close to a hundred Australian passengers onboard after one person tested positive and nine others developed symptoms. World News SBS, 2 April 2020

Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn’s strange moon. The New York Times, 21 February 2021

Nature, Published online: 15 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03435-6A COVID vaccine developer, an Arctic voyager and a prime minister are some of the people behind the year’s big research stories. Nature, 15 December 2020

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But it actually dates back to the fourth century saint Viatrix, which means voyager . The Sun, 20 September 2022

More than once it had appeared that he would outlast his fellow voyager , with doctors giving an all-clear in 2018 and again in 2020, but on each occasion the cancer returned. The Guardian, 6 January 2023

This clever voyager shares how to find the cheapest travel deals. The Sun, 8 January 2023

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voyage : …voyages Hyphenation: voi|iage Rhymes: -ɑʒ Noun voyage (masc.) (pl. voyages) trip, travel Verb voyage Inflection of voyager (first-person singular present indicative) Inflection of voyager (third-person singular present indicative) Inflection…

voyageais : voyageais (French) Pronunciation IPA: /vwa.ja.ʒɛ/ Verb voyageais Inflection of voyager (first-person singular imperfect indicative) Inflection of voyager (second-person singular imperfect indicative)

voyages : …IPA: /vwa.jaʒ/ Homophones: voyage, voyagent Noun voyages (masc.) Plural of voyage Verb voyages Inflection of voyager (second-person singular present indicative) Inflection of voyager (second-person singular present subjunctive) Anagrams…

voyageons : voyageons (French) Verb voyageons Inflection of voyager (first-person plural present indicative) Inflection of voyager (first-person plural imperative)

voyagez : voyagez (French) Verb voyagez Inflection of voyager (second-person plural present indicative) Inflection of voyager (second-person plural imperative)

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Definitions for voyager voy·a·ger, this dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word voyager ., princeton's wordnet rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes.

• voyager noun

a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)

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A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.

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A voyager is a person who travels or embarks on a journey, often to explore or discover new places, cultures, or experiences. This term can also refer to a spacecraft or ship designed for exploration or long-distance travel.

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Voyager noun

one who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water

Etymology: [Cf. F. voyager traveling.]

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Voyager is the 17th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1996. It is a Celtic-themed album with new compositions intertwined with traditional pieces.

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The numerical value of voyager in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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The numerical value of voyager in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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Suzanne Dodd :

I describe Voyager as a grandparent of the missions that have flown since.

Michael Rubin :

While many in the West might find it enduring that the King is a Trekkie who once even had a Star Trek ' Voyager ' cameo, Islamists consider science fiction forbidden because it presumes to know a future that only God can know.

Karl Mitchell :

Triton is weird, but yet relevantly weird, because of the science we can do there, we know the surface has all these features weve never seen before, which motivates us to want to know How does this world work ? Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. ( Credit : NASA/JPL/USGS) NEPTUNES MOONS ARE IN A DANCE OF AVOIDANCE, NASA SAYS.

Elizabeth Warren :

For all their talk of innovation and financial inclusion, crypto industry giants — from FTX to Celsius to Voyager — are collapsing under the weight of their own fraud, deceit and gross mismanagement, and when they sink, they take a lot of honest investors down with them.

Don Gurnett :

In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true, we show with Voyager 2 -- and previously with Voyager 1 -- that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries.

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What does the noun voyager mean?

There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun voyager , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

voyager has developed meanings and uses in subjects including

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The earliest known use of the noun voyager is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).

OED's earliest evidence for voyager is from 1477, in a translation by William Caxton, printer, merchant, and diplomat.

voyager is of multiple origins. Either a borrowing from French. Or formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: French veaigier ; voyage v. , ‑er suffix 1 .

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• voyage, v. 1477–
• voyageable, adj. 1819–
• voyage food, n. c1610–15
• voyage policy, n. 1848–
• voyage provision, n. 1562–65
• voyager, n. 1477–
• voyageur, n. 1793–
• voyaging, n. 1611–
• voyant, n. 1938–
• voyant, adj. 1906–
• voye, n. 1541–78
• voyeur, n. 1900–
• voyeur, v. 1959–
• voyeurism, n. 1924–
• voyeurist, n. & adj. 1955–
• voyeuristic, adj. 1929–

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• one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

/ ˈvɔɪədʒə /

• either of two US spacecraft that studied the outer solar system; Voyager 1 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980), Voyager 2 visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1981) and made the first flyby of Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989)

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A member of Voyager’s optical navigation team, Linda Morabito, spotted an odd, mushroom-shaped feature extending off the edge of Io while she was trying to plot the spacecraft’s position on March 9, 1979.

The Voyager flyby did offer hints that there’s more to Uranus than meets the eye.

More surprising, Voyager’s instruments showed that Uranus’s magnetic field is tilted 60 degrees relative to its axis, as if your compass needle pointed to Houston instead of the north pole.

The simulation shows a significant fraction of a galaxy can be settled in a relatively short period of time, even with ships traveling no faster than the Voyager spacecraft.

It sent gold-plated music albums and photos on the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.

The television shows were prolific: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.

Not Now, Voyager: A Memoirby Lynne Sharon Schwartz The acclaimed author expertly reflects on travel.

The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness.

The air voyager in this description of balloon had formerly many difficulties to contend with.

At the worst, an abstract ideal is pemmican to carry the voyager through the long nights until the ice begins to break.

The night was very dark, and as the huge voyager had no "light out" the Advance could not be censured for running foul.

Many an early voyager was unexpectedly caught by this hook, and found himself embayed.

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