DESTINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destination mean? 

• DESTINATION (noun)
  The noun DESTINATION has 3 senses:

1. the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

2. the ultimate goal for which something is done

3. written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

  Familiarity information: DESTINATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

destination; finish; goal

Context example:

he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view

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

end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)

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

finish line; finishing line (a line indicating the location of the finish of a race)

Derivation:

destine (decree or designate beforehand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ultimate goal for which something is done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

destination; terminus

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

end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)

Derivation:

destine (design or destine)

destine (decree or designate beforehand)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

address; destination; name and address

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

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

Meronyms (parts of "destination"):

postal code; postcode; ZIP; ZIP code (a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail)

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

return address (the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered)

Holonyms ("destination" is a part of...):

letter; missive (a written message addressed to a person or organization)

 Context examples 

Travelling can be stressful experience—whether it be to a vacation spot or business destination.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Previous space missions have already identified Europa as one of the likeliest destinations for harbouring life in our solar system, most notably because of the large seas of liquid water underneath its surface.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Reaching those destinations would bring the rover closer to locations where dark streaks are present on some slopes.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

The possibility of undersea hydrothermal activity inside icy moons such as Europa at Jupiter and Enceladus at Saturn feeds interest in them as destinations in the quest to find extraterrestrial life.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

Tau Ceti, a favorite destination of science fiction writers, is very similar to the sun both in size and brightness.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You seem to be going with a friend or to see a friend at the destination.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"In this study, we found only one gene associated with the final wintering destination of golden-winged and blue-winged warblers," said Toews.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

The act of reaching a destination.

(Arrival, NCI Thesaurus)

Another destination of acetyl-CoA is the production of ketone bodies by the liver that are transported to tissues like the heart and brain for energy.

(Beta-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A completed activity of transporting a product between a point of origin and a point of destination.

(Performed Product Transport, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)