Voyageur Definition

voiə-zhûr, vwäyä-zhœr
voyageur, voyageurs
noun
A woodsman, boatman, or guide employed by a fur company to transport goods and supplies between remote stations in Canada or the US Northwest.
American Heritage
In Canada,
Webster's New World
A trader, particularly in furs, who worked (explored) in the area of Canada and the northern United States from the 16th to early 19th centuries; they were often of Quebecois extraction.
Wiktionary

Origin of Voyageur

  • French traveler from voyager to travel from voyage journey from Old French veyage voyage

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French (below)

    From Wiktionary

Voyageur Sentence Examples

  • Voyageur Rewards is free to join and accumulated points are valid for one year.

  • In Les Lettres d'un voyageur, which ran in the Revue des deux mondes between 1834 and 1836, we have not only impressions of travel, but the direct impressions of men and things not distorted by the exigencies of a novel.

  • This tree, the "liard" of the Canadian voyageur, abounds on many of the river sides of the northwestern plains; it occurs in the neighbourhood of the Great Slave Lake and along the Mackenzie River, and forms much of the driftwood of the Arctic coast.

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VVOVOY

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