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Voyage vs Outing - What's the difference?

voyage | outing |

As verbs the difference between voyage and outing

is that voyage is while outing is .

As a noun outing is

a pleasure trip or excursion.

voyage

English

(wikipedia voyage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long journey, especially by ship.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
  • (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.

    Synonyms

    * adventure * exploration * expedition * excursion * journey * tour * vacation

    Related terms

    * envoy

    Derived terms

    * maiden voyage

    Verb

    (voyag)
  • To go on a long journey.
  • * Wordsworth
    • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
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    outing

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia outing) (en noun)
  • A pleasure trip or excursion.
  • The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent.
  • An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
  • * 2012 , BBC News: Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen Ginsberg [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652271]:
    • The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

    Verb

    (head)