excursion.
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
Meaning & usage
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
A field trip.
A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
Where this word comes from
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.
To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
Where this word comes from
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.
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