excursion

CEFRB2

/ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A short trip taken for pleasure or a special purpose.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A field trip.

Examples

  • He's the one who made an excursion there.

  • We went to Lake Towada on a school excursion.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

  2. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

  3. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.

More examples

In context

  • After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.

  • While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.

  • 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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Origin

noun

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.