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Karen15 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Trip / journey / travel / vacation

Hello,

What is the actual difference between trip, travel, Journey and Vacation?
(Please don't refer me to dictionaries. I've already read the meanings but didn't understand.)

Thanks.

  

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Here are a few comments on how I use these words and hear them used. trip is a very common word. Used for small casual actions and also 'big' ones.

— Clive

  • Here are a few comments on how I use these words and hear them used.
  • trip is a very common word.
  • Used for small casual actions and also 'big' ones.
  • eg I have to take a trip to the grocery store.
  • I'll be back in 5 minutes.
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Here are a few comments on how I use these words and hear them used.

trip is a very common word. Used for small casual actions and also 'big' ones.

eg I have to take a trip to the grocery store. I'll be back in 5 minutes.

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I'd like to add to what Clive has already said that there's no such thing as 'a travel'. However, the noun may occur in the plural. Steinbeck wrote a book called Travels With Charley. There is also Gulliver's Travels.

When a trip entered the English language, it was originally rather informal. Journey is derived from the French word jour (a day), and,

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