1. [n]  the act of traveling from one place to another
2. [v]  undertake a journey or trip
3. [v]  travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"

1. \Jour"ney\, n.; pl. {Journeys}. [OE. jornee, journee,
   prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn['e]e, jurn['e]e, a day, a
   day's work of journey, F. journ['e]e, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor
   a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See {Journal}.]
   1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   
            We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath
            finished half his journey.            --Milton.
   
   2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence,
      figuratively, a passage through life.
   
            The good man . . . is gone a long journey. --Prov.
                                                  vii. 19.
   
            We must all have the same journey's end. --Bp.
                                                  Stillingfleet.
   
   Syn: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage.
   
   Usage: {Journey}, {Tour}, {Excursion}, {Pilgrimage}. The word
          journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged
          traveling for a specific object, leading a person to
          pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we
          take a roundabout course from place to place, more
          commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business.
          An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for
          pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a
          place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some
          train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on
          important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion
          to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
   
   

2. \Jour"ney\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Journeyed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Journeying}.]
   To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
   
         Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
                                                  --Gen. xii. 9.
   
   

3. \Jour"ney\, v. t.
   To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] ``I journeyed
   many a land.'' --Sir W. Scott.
   
   

(1.) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31).

(2.) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Ex. 16:29. (See SABBATH.)