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Excursion
Definitions
- 1 A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
"While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer."
- 2 wandering from the main path of a journey wordnet
- 3 A field trip. Australia
- 4 a journey taken for pleasure wordnet
- 5 A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
"Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment."
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- 6 An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- 7 A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- 1 To go on a recreational trip or excursion. intransitive
"1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion.
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion.
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