excursion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
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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. Compare excursus.
Inflected forms:
form: excursions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: excursions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excursioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excursioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excursioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
pos: noun
examples: While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
gloss: A field trip.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
pos: noun
gloss: A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
pos: noun
gloss: Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
pos: noun
examples: After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
gloss: To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […]
Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.
Antonyms: incursion
Related words: excursus
expedition
Derived words: alarums and excursions
drift excursion
excursioner
excursion fare
excursionism
excursionist
excursionize
excursion rate
excursion steamer
power excursion
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