"excursion" meaning in English

See excursion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/ [Canada, General-American], /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-us-excursion.ogg Forms: excursions [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{bor|en|la|excursio||a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech}} Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} excursion (plural excursions)
  1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way. Synonyms (recreational trip): journey, trip Translations (brief recreational trip): ekskursion [masculine] (Albanian), էքսկուրսիա (ēkʻskursia) (Armenian), զբոսարշավ (zbosaršav) (Armenian), txango (Basque), экску́рсія (ekskúrsija) [feminine] (Belarusian), екску́рзия (ekskúrzija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 遠足 (Chinese Mandarin), 远足 (yuǎnzú) (Chinese Mandarin), 短途旅行 (duǎntú lǚxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 郊遊 (Chinese Mandarin), 郊游 (jiāoyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), 野遊 (Chinese Mandarin), 野游 (yěyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), výlet [masculine] (Czech), exkurze [feminine] (Czech), udflugt [common-gender] (Danish), ekskursion [common-gender] (Danish), uitstapje [neuter] (Dutch), excursie [feminine] (Dutch), ekskurso (Esperanto), ekskursio (Finnish), huviretki (Finnish), excursion [feminine] (French), randonnée [feminine] (French), Ausflug [masculine] (German), Exkursion [feminine] (German), εκδρομή (ekdromí) [feminine] (Greek), טיול (tiul) (Hebrew), kirándulás (Hungarian), exkurso (Ido), ekskursi (Indonesian), gita [feminine] (Italian), escursione [feminine] (Italian), 遠足 (ensoku) (alt: えんそく) (Japanese), excursiō [feminine] (Latin), ekskursija [feminine] (Lithuanian), Ausfluch [masculine] (Luxembourgish), tiripi (Maori), utflukt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ekskursjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), utflukt [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ekskursjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), گشتوگذار (gašt-o-gozâr) (Persian), wycieczka [feminine] (Polish), excursão [feminine] (Portuguese), passeio [masculine] (Portuguese), excursie [feminine] (Romanian), экску́рсия (ekskúrsija) [feminine] (Russian), екскурзија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ekskurzija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), excursión [feminine] (Spanish), utflykt [common-gender] (Swedish), exkursion [common-gender] (Swedish), విహారయాత్ర (vihārayātra) (Telugu), екску́рсія (ekskúrsija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-excursion-en-noun-zWUWqyFs Disambiguation of 'recreational trip': 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'brief recreational trip': 93 2 3 1
  2. A wandering from the main subject: a digression. Synonyms (wandering from the main subject): digression, excursus Translations (wandering from the main subject): э́кскурс (ékskurs) [masculine] (Belarusian), отклонение (otklonenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ekskurs [common-gender] (Danish), Abschweifung [feminine] (German), Exkurs [masculine] (German), Digression [feminine] (German), ekskurs [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ekskurs [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), э́кскурс (ékskurs) [masculine] (Russian), utvikning [common-gender] (Swedish), exkurs [common-gender] (Swedish), е́кскурс (ékskurs) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-excursion-en-noun-fpvQ7zd3 Disambiguation of 'wandering from the main subject': 11 75 7 6 Disambiguation of 'wandering from the main subject': 10 76 7 6
  3. (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi. Categories (topical): Aviation
    Sense id: en-excursion-en-noun-iMvvA0Ye Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Basque translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Telugu translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 10 62 12 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 9 58 9 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 4 5 37 5 6 2 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 3 40 3 4 1 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 9 22 39 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 9 21 40 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Basque translations: 9 19 43 15 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 10 16 47 13 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 11 19 43 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 8 21 38 22 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 7 15 55 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 11 11 50 11 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 8 15 52 14 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 19 43 15 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 12 11 50 10 17 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 11 50 11 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 7 15 49 18 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 8 17 47 16 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 7 22 41 22 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 8 9 62 10 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 9 22 39 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 9 10 58 10 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 9 10 58 10 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 9 10 58 10 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 9 22 39 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Luxembourgish translations: 9 15 47 13 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 9 16 42 13 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 9 19 43 15 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 9 20 41 16 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 4 10 69 10 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 9 21 39 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 9 18 43 14 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 21 40 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 9 19 43 15 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 9 10 58 10 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 10 21 39 18 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 8 8 61 9 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 8 19 44 15 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Telugu translations: 8 19 49 16 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 9 19 43 15 13 Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  4. (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech. Categories (topical): Phonetics
    Sense id: en-excursion-en-noun-8IOpuHP- Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alarums and excursions, excursion fare, excursion rate, excursion steamer, power excursion Related terms: excursus

Verb

IPA: /ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/ [Canada, General-American], /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-us-excursion.ogg Forms: excursions [present, singular, third-person], excursioning [participle, present], excursioned [participle, past], excursioned [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{bor|en|la|excursio||a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech}} Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)
  1. (intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion. Tags: intransitive Translations (to go on an excursion): mennä huviretkelle (Finnish), mennä ekskursiolle (Finnish), retkeillä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-excursion-en-verb-6E2XBDFC

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "alarums and excursions"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "excursion fare"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "excursion rate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "excursion steamer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "power excursion"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱers-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excursio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excursions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excursion (plural excursions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "excursus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way."
      ],
      "id": "en-excursion-en-noun-zWUWqyFs",
      "links": [
        [
          "trip",
          "trip"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "sense": "recreational trip",
          "word": "journey"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "sense": "recreational trip",
          "word": "trip"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskursion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ēkʻskursia",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "էքսկուրսիա"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "zbosaršav",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "զբոսարշավ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "txango"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "ekskúrsija",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "экску́рсія"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ekskúrzija",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "екску́рзия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "遠足"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yuǎnzú",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "远足"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "duǎntú lǚxíng",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "短途旅行"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "郊遊"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiāoyóu",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "郊游"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "野遊"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yěyóu",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "野游"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "výlet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "exkurze"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "udflugt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "ekskursion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "uitstapje"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "ekskurso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "ekskursio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "huviretki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "randonnée"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Ausflug"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Exkursion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ekdromí",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "εκδρομή"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "tiul",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "טיול"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "kirándulás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "exkurso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "ekskursi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escursione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "alt": "えんそく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ensoku",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "遠足"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursiō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskursija"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Ausfluch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "tiripi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "utflukt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskursjon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "utflukt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskursjon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "gašt-o-gozâr",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "گشتوگذار"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "wycieczka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursão"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "passeio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ekskúrsija",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "экску́рсия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "екскурзија"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskurzija"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "excursión"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "utflykt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "exkursion"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "vihārayātra",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "word": "విహారయాత్ర"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 3 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ekskúrsija",
          "sense": "brief recreational trip",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "екску́рсія"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A wandering from the main subject: a digression."
      ],
      "id": "en-excursion-en-noun-fpvQ7zd3",
      "links": [
        [
          "digression",
          "digression"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "11 75 7 6",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "word": "digression"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 75 7 6",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "word": "excursus"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "ékskurs",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "э́кскурс"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otklonenie",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "отклонение"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "ekskurs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Abschweifung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Exkurs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Digression"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskurs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ekskurs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ékskurs",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "э́кскурс"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "utvikning"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "exkurs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 76 7 6",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ékskurs",
          "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "е́кскурс"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Aviation",
          "orig": "en:Aviation",
          "parents": [
            "Aeronautics",
            "Transport",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 10 62 12 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 9 58 9 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 5 37 5 6 2 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 3 40 3 4 1 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 22 39 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Albanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 21 40 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 19 43 15 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Basque translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 16 47 13 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 19 43 14 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 21 38 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 15 55 12 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 11 50 11 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 15 52 14 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 19 43 15 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 11 50 10 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 11 50 11 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 15 49 18 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 17 47 16 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 22 41 22 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 9 62 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ido translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 22 39 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 10 58 10 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 10 58 10 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 10 58 10 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 22 39 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 15 47 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 16 42 13 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 19 43 15 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 20 41 16 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 10 69 10 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 21 39 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Persian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 18 43 14 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 21 40 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 19 43 15 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 10 58 10 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 21 39 18 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 8 61 9 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 19 44 15 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 19 49 16 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Telugu translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 19 43 15 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi."
      ],
      "id": "en-excursion-en-noun-iMvvA0Ye",
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "runway",
          "runway"
        ],
        [
          "taxiway",
          "taxiway"
        ],
        [
          "takeoff",
          "takeoff"
        ],
        [
          "landing",
          "landing"
        ],
        [
          "taxi",
          "taxi"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Phonetics",
          "orig": "en:Phonetics",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech."
      ],
      "id": "en-excursion-en-noun-8IOpuHP-",
      "links": [
        [
          "phonetics",
          "phonetics"
        ],
        [
          "deviation",
          "deviation"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "syllable",
          "syllable"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonetics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-excursion.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg/En-us-excursion.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʃən"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "excursion"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱers-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excursio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excursions",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nYesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mark Twain, chapter 49, in A Tramp Abroad:",
          "text": "After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go on a recreational trip or excursion."
      ],
      "id": "en-excursion-en-verb-6E2XBDFC",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go on an excursion",
          "word": "mennä huviretkelle"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go on an excursion",
          "word": "mennä ekskursiolle"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go on an excursion",
          "word": "retkeillä"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-excursion.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg/En-us-excursion.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʃən"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "excursion"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers-",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʃən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʃən/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʒən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʒən/3 syllables",
    "Terms with Albanian translations",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Basque translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Telugu translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "alarums and excursions"
    },
    {
      "word": "excursion fare"
    },
    {
      "word": "excursion rate"
    },
    {
      "word": "excursion steamer"
    },
    {
      "word": "power excursion"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱers-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excursio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excursions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excursion (plural excursions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "excursus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trip",
          "trip"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A wandering from the main subject: a digression."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "digression",
          "digression"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Aviation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "runway",
          "runway"
        ],
        [
          "taxiway",
          "taxiway"
        ],
        [
          "takeoff",
          "takeoff"
        ],
        [
          "landing",
          "landing"
        ],
        [
          "taxi",
          "taxi"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Phonetics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phonetics",
          "phonetics"
        ],
        [
          "deviation",
          "deviation"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "syllable",
          "syllable"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonetics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-excursion.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg/En-us-excursion.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʃən"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "recreational trip",
      "word": "journey"
    },
    {
      "sense": "recreational trip",
      "word": "trip"
    },
    {
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "word": "digression"
    },
    {
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "word": "excursus"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskursion"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ēkʻskursia",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "էքսկուրսիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "zbosaršav",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "զբոսարշավ"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "txango"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "ekskúrsija",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "экску́рсія"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ekskúrzija",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "екску́рзия"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "遠足"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yuǎnzú",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "远足"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duǎntú lǚxíng",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "短途旅行"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "郊遊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāoyóu",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "郊游"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "野遊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yěyóu",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "野游"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "výlet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "exkurze"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "udflugt"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ekskursion"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "uitstapje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "ekskurso"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "ekskursio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "huviretki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursion"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "randonnée"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ausflug"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Exkursion"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ekdromí",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "εκδρομή"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tiul",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "טיול"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "kirándulás"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "exkurso"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "ekskursi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gita"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escursione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "えんそく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ensoku",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "遠足"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskursija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ausfluch"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "tiripi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "utflukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskursjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "utflukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskursjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gašt-o-gozâr",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "گشتوگذار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wycieczka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passeio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekskúrsija",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "экску́рсия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "екскурзија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskurzija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excursión"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "utflykt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "exkursion"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "vihārayātra",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "word": "విహారయాత్ర"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ekskúrsija",
      "sense": "brief recreational trip",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "екску́рсія"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "ékskurs",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "э́кскурс"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otklonenie",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отклонение"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ekskurs"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Abschweifung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Exkurs"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Digression"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskurs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskurs"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ékskurs",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "э́кскурс"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "utvikning"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "exkurs"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ékskurs",
      "sense": "wandering from the main subject",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "е́кскурс"
    }
  ],
  "word": "excursion"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers-",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʃən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʃən/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʒən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)ʒən/3 syllables",
    "Terms with Albanian translations",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Basque translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Telugu translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱers-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excursio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excursions",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "excursioned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nYesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mark Twain, chapter 49, in A Tramp Abroad:",
          "text": "After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go on a recreational trip or excursion."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-excursion.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg/En-us-excursion.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/En-us-excursion.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈskɜː.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʃən"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go on an excursion",
      "word": "mennä huviretkelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go on an excursion",
      "word": "mennä ekskursiolle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go on an excursion",
      "word": "retkeillä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "excursion"
}

Download raw JSONL data for excursion meaning in English (18.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.