EXCURSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excursion mean? 

• EXCURSION (noun)
  The noun EXCURSION has 2 senses:

1. a journey taken for pleasure

2. wandering from the main path of a journey

  Familiarity information: EXCURSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCURSION (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 ("excursion" is a kind of...):

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

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

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:

excursionist (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wandering from the main path of a journey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

digression; excursion

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

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

Derivation:

excursionist (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

 Context examples 

What happy times they had planning together, what solemn shopping excursions, what funny mistakes they made, and what shouts of laughter arose over Laurie's ridiculous bargains.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very different from what Elinor had expected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was jerked back abruptly once from such an excursion by a sight that caused him nearly to faint.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had nothing to do with my host going off upon a nocturnal excursion and meeting so sad an end.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They never once thought of her heart, which, for the parents of a young lady of seventeen, just returned from her first excursion from home, was odd enough!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This excursion could turn out to be a romantic trip of a lifetime.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)