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/ɪkskˈərʒən/ Listen

noun

Excursion n.

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. "Far on excursion toward the gates of hell." "They would make excursions and waste the country."

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A wandering from a subject; digression. "I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions."

(Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. (An awkward use of the word.)

Synonyms: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excursion" Quotes from Famous Books

... family, old and young, including visitors, were on that day to go on a picnic up the river, taking their dinner along, and spending the day in the woods. They had been planning this excursion for several days, and the children especially had been looking forward to it with a great ...

— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley

... who has travelled in Egypt will require to be told that it is a country in which a considerable amount of waiting and waste of time has to be endured. One makes an excursion by train to see some ruins, and, upon returning to the station, the train is found to be late, and an hour or more has to be dawdled away. Crossing the Nile in a rowing-boat the sailors contrive in one way or another ...

— The Treasury of Ancient Egypt - Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology • Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

... sudden determination! It was but yesterday, at the Roman Camp, that you planned an excursion with my father, to ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... purchased for a few pounds a light little yawl, furnished with mast and sail, and that rowed four oars, to enable me to carry out my explorations. It made me free of the Cromarty and Moray Firths for some six or eight miles from the town, and afforded me many a pleasant evening's excursion to the deep-sea caves and skerries, and the picturesque surf-wasted stacks of the granitic wall of rock which runs in the Ben Nevis line of elevation, from Shadwick on the east to the Scarfs Crag on the west. I know not a richer tract for the geologist. ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... but a more diligent soul would have refused that excursion, just because it was pleasant; would have avoided it, out of mortification, ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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