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Voyages

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A noun describing long, perilous, or transformative journeys and expeditions, especially those undertaken across open seas.

Detailed Definition
In older literary contexts, a voyage is a long journey, often an expedition by ship. Here it refers to Captain Cook’s travel narratives, which the speakers read and imagine themselves into.
Example
Example in poetry:
“When home you brought his Voyages who found the Fair South Seas” (Dickinson, “A Bird came down the Walk”); “voyages” names journeys, especially long sea travels, and often carries figurative meanings of discovery or risk; Whitman’s sea poems use travel to imagine spiritual and national expansion; in a contemporary migration poem, “voyages” may honor dangerous crossings while resisting romantic adventure language
Additional Notes
In the quoted line, "Voyages" is used as a title-like noun for travel books, which may be less immediate than the everyday sense of a trip.; Found in the poem, Captain Cook (To My Brother) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Also Known As
Journeys Travels Expeditions Adventures
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