{
    "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’."
}