JAUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jaunt mean? 

• JAUNT (noun)
  The noun JAUNT has 1 sense:

1. a journey taken for pleasure

  Familiarity information: JAUNT used as a noun is very rare.

• JAUNT (verb)
  The verb JAUNT has 1 sense:

1. make a trip for pleasure

  Familiarity information: JAUNT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journey taken for pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

excursion; expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay

Context example:

after cautious sashays into the field

Hypernyms ("jaunt" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jaunt"):

airing (a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air)

field trip (a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination)

Derivation:

jaunt (make a trip for pleasure)

• JAUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jaunt    ... he / she / it jaunts   
Past simple: jaunted   
Past participle: jaunted   
-ing form: jaunting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a trip for pleasure

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jaunt; travel; trip

Cause:

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jaunt"):

junket; junketeer (go on a pleasure trip)

travel to; visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)

journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)

ply; run (travel a route regularly)

commute (travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home)

peregrinate (travel around, through, or over, especially on foot)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

jaunt (a journey taken for pleasure)

 Context examples 

Venus will spend a lot of time in fire-sign Sagittarius, your third house of quick jaunts, until November 25, a friendly sign that blends well with your air-sign Libra Sun.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Either way, you will be hankering for another jaunt as soon as next month or in May.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)