excursion

Meaning of excursion

noun
  1. a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity.
    an excursion to London Zoo
  2. a deviation from a regular activity or course.
    the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market
  3. a movement of something along a path or through an angle.
    large excursions of the hip and knee joint
    a gantry controlled the radial and tangential excursion of each detector

late 16th century (in the sense ‘act of running out’, also ‘sortie’ in the phrase alarums and excursions (see alarum): from Latin excursio(n- ), from the verb excurrere ‘run out’, from ex- ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’.

Information about excursion

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of excursion is: excursions.
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Hyphenation of excursion

ex-cur-sion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • excursion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

excursion synonyms

Meaning jaunt:

jaunt, outing, junket, expedition, sashay

Meaning digression:

digression

Meaning a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure:

trip

Meaning an act of travelling from one place to another:

journey

Meaning a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited:

tour

Meaning a trip or journey in a car:

drive

Meaning a short excursion made in a car:

run

Meaning a journey made on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle, or in a vehicle:

ride

Meaning a brief trip in a vehicle for pleasure:

spin

Meaning a hopping movement:

hop

Meaning a ride in a vehicle; a lift:

hurl

Translation of excursion

Words that rhyme with excursion

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