What's the difference between journey and pilgrimage?

Journey


Definition:

  • (n.) The travel or work of a day.
  • (n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
  • (v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
  • (v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (3) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
  • (4) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (5) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (6) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (7) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
  • (8) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
  • (9) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
  • (10) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
  • (11) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
  • (12) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
  • (13) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
  • (14) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
  • (15) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
  • (16) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
  • (17) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (19) During their last conversation in April, Gulru told her that Isis had given the family $30,000 for their journey to Aleppo.
  • (20) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.

Pilgrimage


Definition:

  • (n.) The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.
  • (n.) A tedious and wearisome time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
  • (2) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
  • (3) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
  • (4) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
  • (5) Good point: the German edition was subtitled Eine Englische Wallfahrt (An English Pilgrimage).
  • (6) On that pilgrimage to Mecca, he ordered a mosque built wherever his procession stopped en route.
  • (7) It’s a great tragedy.” All Yazidi celebrations, such as weddings and the party-like annual pilgrimage to their sacred temple, Lalish, have been put on hold.
  • (8) A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
  • (9) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
  • (10) His pilgrimages have also shored up support for his premiership from ruling party conservatives and from an influential lobby of families bereaved in wartime.
  • (11) His most famous piece, Magnetism , uses a black square magnet surrounded by iron filings to represent the pilgrimage to the Ka'ba.
  • (12) Fearful of the connections his son had been forming back home, his father reportedly confiscated Abedi’s passport, relenting only when his son told him he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
  • (13) The Islamic Republic of Iran pursues a clear and transparent policy with regard to the expansion of interaction and cooperation with all neighbours and world countries and enjoys excellent relations with many regional governments, especially Arabic governments.” The row is likely to have serious consequences for Iranians who plan to travel to Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage.
  • (14) The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, which drew 2 million Muslims from around the world, has been epidemic-free, Saudi Arabia’s acting health minister has said.
  • (15) There are dancers from 17 nationalities currently in Bausch's company, and many of them made similar pilgrimages.
  • (16) Over time, the patch of mountain has become a pilgrimage to environmental and other activists, even school groups, with Gibson's wife handling the scheduling requests.
  • (17) In a little over two years' time, Bannockburn will be the focus of much more than trophy-hunting tourists, expatriates on a cultural pilgrimage and casual patriots.
  • (18) More than half a million Iranians annually travel to Saudi Arabia for hajj pilgrimage, which Muslims consider a religious duty.
  • (19) The most important stop on our pilgrimage is Macondray Lane – the inspiration for Barbary Lane.
  • (20) This should prove sobering enough to prepare you for Thirsty Thursday , the traditional kick-off for the nightly yuletide pilgrimage from office party to A&E.