excursion

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən Hyphenation: ex‧cur‧sion === Noun === excursion (plural excursions) A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way. (Australia) A field trip. A wandering from the main subject: a digression. (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi. (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech. ==== Synonyms ==== (recreational trip): journey, trip, jaunt (wandering from the main subject): digression, excursus ==== Antonyms ==== (field trip): incursion ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== excursus ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Verb === excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned) (intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion. 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, [1] Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “excursion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “excursion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “excursion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin excursiōnem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === excursion f (plural excursions) excursion wander (talk off topic) === Further reading === “excursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012