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EXCURSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wandering from the main path of a journey
Synonyms:
digression; excursion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("excursion" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Derivation:
excursionist (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A journey taken for pleasure
Example:
after cautious sashays into the field
Synonyms:
excursion; expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("excursion" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excursion"):
airing (a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air)
field trip (a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination)
Derivation:
excursionist (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)
Context examples:
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Holmes had sat down again after one of these excursions, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with a loud exclamation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had not been known to them as a boy; but soon after Lady Elliot's death, Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it, making allowance for the modest drawing-back of youth; and, in one of their spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom, Mr Elliot had been forced into the introduction.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
While I was yet new at Doctor Strong's, she made several excursions over to Canterbury to see me, and always at unseasonable hours: with the view, I suppose, of taking me by surprise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Save for this one excursion, he spent his days in long and often solitary walks, or in chatting with a number of village gossips whose acquaintance he had cultivated.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But these excursions out of the real were of brief duration, for ever the pangs of the hunger-bite called him back.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Of course, I had at the outset no particular reason to connect these journeys with the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton, and was only inclined to investigate them on the general grounds that everything which concerns Dr. Armstrong is at present of interest to us, but, now that I find he keeps so keen a look-out upon anyone who may follow him on these excursions, the affair appears more important, and I shall not be satisfied until I have made the matter clear.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She always felt wicked after it, for the pretty things were seldom necessaries, but then they cost so little, it wasn't worth worrying about, so the trifles increased unconsciously, and in the shopping excursions she was no longer a passive looker-on.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
