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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty

Meaning of "excursion" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EXCURSION

From Latin excursiō an attack, from excurrere to run out, from currere to run.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EXCURSION

excursion  [ɪkˈskɜːʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXCURSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Excursion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXCURSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Excursion

An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other purposes. Public transportation companies issue reduced price excursion tickets to attract business of this type. Often these tickets are restricted to off-peak days or times for the destination concerned. Short excursions for education or for observations of natural phenomena are called field trips. One-day educational field studies are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, e.g. to visit a natural or geographical feature. The term is also used for short military movements into foreign territory, without a formal announcement of war.

Definition of excursion in the English dictionary

The first definition of excursion in the dictionary is a short outward and return journey, esp for relaxation, sightseeing, etc; outing. Other definition of excursion is a group of people going on such a journey. Excursion is also of or relating to special reduced rates offered on certain journeys by rail.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXCURSION


aspersion
əˈspɜːʃən
assertion
əˈsɜːʃən
aversion
əˈvɜːʃən
coercion
kəʊˈɜːʃən
conversion
kənˈvɜːʃən
decursion
dɪˈkɜːʃən
discursion
dɪsˈkɜːʃən
dispersion
dɪˈspɜːʃən
diversion
daɪˈvɜːʃən
exertion
ɪɡˈzɜːʃən
immersion
ɪˈmɜːʃən
incursion
ɪnˈkɜːʃən
insertion
ɪnˈsɜːʃən
inversion
ɪnˈvɜːʃən
overexertion
ˌəʊvərɪɡˈzɜːʃən
Persian
ˈpɜːʃən
recursion
rɪˈkɜːʃən
seroconversion
ˌsɪərəʊkənˈvɜːʃən
subversion
səbˈvɜːʃən
version
ˈvɜːʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXCURSION

excubant
excudit
exculpable
exculpate
exculpation
exculpatory
excurrent
excurse
excursion train
excursionise
excursionist
excursionize
excursive
excursively
excursiveness
excursus
excusable
excusableness
excusably
excusal

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXCURSION

American Standard Version
barn conversion
bioconversion
commission
cover version
emersion
energy conversion
eversion
extraversion
extroversion
interconversion
King James Version
reconversion
reversion
Revised Standard Version
Revised Version
submersion
the Authorized Version
the Dispersion
the King James Version
torsion

Synonyms and antonyms of excursion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXCURSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «excursion» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of excursion

Translation of «excursion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXCURSION

Find out the translation of excursion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of excursion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «excursion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

短途旅行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excursión
570 millions of speakers

English

excursion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भ्रमण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رحلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экскурсия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excursão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রমোদভ্রমণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

excursion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lawatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausflug
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小旅行
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

짧은 여행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wisata
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

du ngoạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றுலா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सफर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

escursione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wycieczka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екскурсія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excursie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκδρομή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitstappie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utflykt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekskursjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of excursion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCURSION»

The term «excursion» is very widely used and occupies the 17.738 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCURSION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «excursion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «excursion» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about excursion

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6 QUOTES WITH «EXCURSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word excursion.
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Taylor Caldwell
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Franz Grillparzer
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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JR
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
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Charles Sturt
I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.
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Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXCURSION»

Discover the use of excursion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to excursion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Excursion
Written for the very audience it portrays, this novel introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes.
Frances Brooke, Paula R. Backscheider, Hope D. Cotton, 1777
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Excursion to Tindari
Now, in Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s savvy and darkly comic take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone-chilling case yet.
Andrea Camilleri, 2005
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A Brief Excursion and Other Stories
The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers.
Antun Šoljan, 1999
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Maximum Adverse Excursion: Analyzing Price Fluctuations for ...
" This comprehensive, accessible reference gives you the tools you need to employ MAE successfully, including detailed information on: * Defining and calculating adverse, minimum, and maximum favorable excursion (MinFE and MaxFE) * ...
John Sweeney, Jack Sweeney, 1997
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Re-reading The excursion: narrative, response, and the ...
Later, the epitaphic books are reconsidered in the light of Wordworth's critical writing; Bushell argues that the significance of the epitaph for him lies in its values as a poetic form in which the text itself is released from poetic ...
Sally Bushell, 2002
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An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a Los Indios ...
"Translation of 1870 Una excursion a los indios ranqueles, letters recounting Mansilla's visit with the Ranquel nation of Argentina. Translator made some cuts to the text for fluency, but their location is not indicated to the reader.
Lucio V. Mansilla, 1997
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The autumnal excursion; or, Sketches in Teviotdale: with ...
with other poems Thomas Pringle. land almost down to the present day." — See alto Peh6y's ff<?- ligues, vol. I. p. 118. Complaynt of Scotland, p. 271. Jiorder iUUl 'I'jW'K it.;- '- -i ti .'1 --.!> Jo j'-i Minstrelsy, passim. h, yij jil' i. . . . 'jib }i1 To the ...
Thomas Pringle, 1819
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Mathematical Excursion, Enhanced Edition
As an added bonus, the Start Smart Guide has been bound into this text. This guide contains instructions to help students learn the basics of WebAssign quickly.
Richard Aufmann, Joanne Lockwood, Richard Nation, 2009
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An excursion into the paranormal
This book is not an attempt to describe paranormal phenomena in an all-inclusive or systematic way.
George Karolyi, Paranormal Phenomena Research Foundation, 2009
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the ...
Taking us into the wilds of the Amazon, he tells the story of a tribe there who can count only to five and reports on the latest findings about the math instinct—including the revelation that ants can actually count how many steps ...
Alex Bellos, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXCURSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term excursion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Georgetown looking for cruise ship excursion packages
The new co-ordinator of a project to bring cruise ships to eastern P.E.I. is looking for excursion packages. Melvin Ford, working with the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
SUMMER EXCURSION: Former Lincoln High softball standout …
After a standout sophomore season at Fordham University where she lead the Rams in RBI, former Lincoln High star Lindsay Mayer will join ... «Woonsocket Call, Jul 15»
3
Teddy Bear Train Excursion
Enjoy a train ride with Goldilocks and bring a teddy bear and picnic lunch to enjoy at the park. Kids can enjoy the Walkersville Library's storytime or the park ... «Frederick News Post, Jul 15»
4
NTSB Releases Preliminary Report of HAL Excursion Crash: Limited …
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary factual report finding, as anticipated, that visibility was limited when ... «Cruise Law News, Jul 15»
5
Coronado Living: A Strandworthy Excursion to the Tijuana Estuary …
This past weekend, my husband and I wanted to spend a quiet couple of hours outdoors with our two little kids. We had heard about the Tijuana ... «eCoronado.com, Jul 15»
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Book now for Santiam Excursion Train ride to Sweet Home fireworks
On Saturday, July 11, the Santiam Excursion Train will take riders on a trip along the South Santiam River to Foster Reservoir in Sweet Home ... «Albany Democrat Herald, Jul 15»
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U.S. authorizes first cruise ship excursion to Cuba in 50 years
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —The U.S. has authorized the first cruise service to Cuba in half a century. Cruise giant Carnival Corp. announced ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
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Linguistic Fieldwork Excursion from Geissen, Germany to the …
The excursion is a part of the International Corpus of English – Sri Lanka (ICE-SL), a collaborative research project between the University of ... «The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka, Jul 15»
9
Q&A's excursion to Switzerland
The ABC spent an estimated tens of thousands of dollars flying Q&A host Tony Jones and executive producer Peter McEvoy business-class to ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Korean B738 at Guam on Jul 5th 2015, runway excursion on landing
A Korean Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration HL8224 performing flight KE-2115 from Busan (South Korea) to Guam (Guam) with 75 ... «The Aviation Herald, Jul 15»

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