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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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What's the difference between trip, travel, journey
  

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Trip is the one most often heard, for example: I'm going on a trip. I'm taking a trip. I've got a trip plannned.

  • Trip is the one most often heard, for example: I'm going on a trip.
  • I'm taking a trip.
  • I've got a trip plannned.
  • Journey means the same thing as trip, but it sounds overly formal and so would not be heard in everyday speech.
  • If it is used in casual speech, it would be for effect, due to the unusualness of the place visited, for example: How was your journey to Tibet?
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Trip is the one most often heard, for example:

I'm going on a trip.

I'm taking a trip.

I've got a trip plannned.

Journey means the same thing as trip, but it sounds overly formal and so would not be heard in everyday speech. If it is used in casual speech, it would be for effect, due to the unusualness of the place visited, for example:

How was your jo
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An0nymousJourney means the same thing as trip
No it doesn't.

A journey is the actual travelling from one place to another, the distance travelled, or the time taken

A trip is the travelling to a place, being there and returning,
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Trip was originally more colloquial than journey. Journey derives from the French word for day and used to mean a one-day trip.

This is what Random House Unabridged Dictionary says about trip:

trip, n., v., tripped, trip·ping.
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AnonymousWhat's the difference between trip, travel, and journey?
For one thing, you might say,

There were so many packages in the car that it took me three trips to get them all into the house.

You wouldn't use 'travels' or 'journeys' in that sentence.

CJ

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