Voyager

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who undertakes extensive travel for exploration or discovery signifies the spirit of adventure and curiosity about the unknown
2. Someone who travels, often over great distances, to explore or visit new places
3. An individual who embarks on journeys, typically traveling far from home for discovery or experience

Etymology: "Voyager" is "voyage" with the English suffix "-er" added, meaning one who makes a voyage. The "-er" ending is one of the most productive in English for turning verbs and nouns into words for people who do something, from "baker" to "writer," and it reached English through Old English and Middle English as a native-feeling agent suffix. The base word "voyage" has a longer and more winding path. It comes from Latin "viaticum," a word meaning provisions for a journey, derived from "via," road or way. Over time the Latin ancestor passed through Anglo-Norman and Middle English, and the sense of "provisions" gradually gave way to the idea of the journey itself. So the notion of a traveller is, at root, someone who is tied to the road, the "via" that the word still carries in its ancestry.

Synonyms: traveler, explorer