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Excursion

Excursion Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Excursion? [n] wandering from the main path of a journey [n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Excursion: digression \| expedition \| jaunt \| junket \| outing \| pleasure trip \| sashay Related Terms \| Find terms related to Excursion: aberrancy \| aberration \| airing \| ambages \| aside \| bend \| bias \| branching off \| bypass \| bypath \| byway \| campaign \| circling \| circuit \| circuition \| circuitousness \| circuitry \| circularity \| circulation \| circumambience \| circumambiency \| circumambulation \| circumbendibus \| circumflexion \| circumlocution \| circummigration \| circumnavigation \| corner \| course \| crook \| crosswiseness \| cruise \| curve \| declination \| deflection \| deflexure \| departure \| detour \| deviance \| deviancy \| deviation \| deviousness \| diagonality \| digression \| discursion \| divagation \| divarication \| divergence \| diversion \| dogleg \| double \| drift \| drifting \| drive \| episode \| errantry \| excursus \| exorbitation \| expedition \| grand tour \| gyre \| gyring \| hairpin \| hike \| indirection \| indirectness \| jaunt \| journey \| junket \| lionism \| meandering \| nonconformity \| obliqueness \| obliquity \| orbit \| orbiting \| outing \| package tour \| parenthesis \| peregrination \| pererration \| pilgrimage \| pleasure trip \| progress \| ramble \| rambling \| ride \| round trip \| roundabout \| roundabout way \| roundaboutness \| rounding \| rubberneck tour \| run \| safari \| sail \| sally \| sheer \| shift \| shifting \| shifting course \| shifting path \| shoot \| side path \| side road \| sidetrack \| sight-seeing \| skew \| skewness \| slant \| spiral \| spiraling \| squint \| stalk \| straying \| stroll \| sweep \| swerve \| swerving \| swinging \| tack \| tour \| transverseness \| trek \| trip \| turn \| turning \| twist \| vagary \| variation \| veer \| voyage \| walk \| walkabout \| wandering \| warp \| wheeling \| yaw \| zigzag See Also \| airing \| field trip \| journey \| journeying Excursion In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See {Excurrent}.] 1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. --Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. --Holland. 2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country. 3. A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. --Cowper. 4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.] Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See {Journey}.

Excursion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Excursion?

[n] wandering from the main path of a journey
[n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

See Also | airing | field trip | journey | journeying

Excursion In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See
{Excurrent}.]
1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

         Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. --Milton.

         They would make excursions and waste the country.
                                               --Holland.

2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief
   tour; as, an excursion into the country.

3. A wandering from a subject; digression.

         I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore
         make no excursions.                   --Cowper.

4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An
   awkward use of the word.]

Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See {Journey}.

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