OUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outing mean? 

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

1. a journey taken for pleasure

2. a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

  Familiarity information: OUTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTING (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 ("outing" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

field day; outing; picnic

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

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

 Context examples 

For me it was only a pleasure outing, but I could see, as we drew near the house, that Jim was troubling in his mind lest we should find that things were amiss.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Adequately organize an outing with respect to transportation, keys, destination, weather, necessary money, shopping list?

(DAD - Adequately Organize an Outing with Respect to Transportation, Keys, Destination, Weather, Money, Shopping List, NCI Thesaurus)

If you have children, it’s a time to joyously be together and to surprise them (perhaps with an outing) and play with them more than usual.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)