Excursion

Definitions: Excursion

Excursion

Noun

1. A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field".

2. Wandering from the main path of a journey.

Date "excursion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Excursion \Ex*cur"sion\ [Latin expression excursio: compare to the French expression excursion. See Excurrent.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	From ex, former, and Grk. kairo, to enjoy. Hence, a tiresome journey--formerly an enjoyment--sold at half price. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Energy	A sudden, very rapid rise in the power level of a reactor caused by supercriticality. Excursions are usually quickly suppressed by the negative temperature coefficient, the fuel temperature coefficient or the void coefficient (depending upon reactor design), or by rapid insertion of control rods. (references)
General	Organized outing to a specific place of interest. Source: European Union. (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	A rapid increase of reactor power above the set levels of operation. This increase may be deliberately caused for experimental purposes or it may be accidental. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Excursion

Synonyms: digression (n), expedition (n), jaunt (n), junket (n), outing (n), pleasure trip (n), sashay (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circuition	Noun: circuition, circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit.
Journey	Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Excursion

English words defined with "excursion": airing ♦ Evagation, excursion rate ♦ field trip, Forray ♦ junketing ♦ lunar excursion module ♦ Marooning party, Mineralize ♦ Outlope, Outrode ♦ picnic ♦ To go out, To strike out, Transcursion ♦ War dance. (references)

Specialty definitions using "excursion": first-class service ♦ Helen Keller mode ♦ MAGNETIC BAY ♦ overshoot value ♦ power excursion ♦ reactor excursion, restoring moment. (references)

Etymologies containing "excursion": Outlope. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Excursion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (excursion, outing, pleasure trip, ramble, sightseeing trip, tramp, trip), Provencal (hiking), Spanish (excursion, outing, trip).

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Cruise Ships, Excursion Boats, Ferry Boats, and Similar Passenger Vessels: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Central Park: A Photographic Excursion (reference) Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (reference) Matters of State: A Political Excursion (reference) On the Pig's Back: An Autobiographical Excursion (reference) Small Ships: A Book of Study Plans for Tugs, Freighters, Ferries, Excursion Boats, Trawler Yachts, Houseboats & Fishing Vessels: Working Vessels & w (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Sandwich Historical Society Annual Excursion (reference) (more periodical examples)

High Tech	NORTHWESTERN BELL Excursion 36570-M2 2.4 GHz Digital Cordless Telephone (reference) NOTEWORTHY EXCURSION ROLLER (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	L to R - Ernest W. Eickelberg, Frank Engle, Benjamin Rigg, Roland D. Horne, ? On an excursion to the mines at Malangas Off the PATHFINDER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Across the continent. The Frank Leslie excursion to the Pacific--incidents of travel from Fort Steele to Green River. Twenty minutes for refreshment--passengers visiting the California lions at Green River Station.Credit: Library of Congress.
	An Excursion train in the 1880's on the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Rwy., now a part of the Florida East Coast Railway.Credit: Library of Congress.		Part of the excursion fleet.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Meyer's excursion barge Columbia.Credit: Library of Congress.		Detroit Board of Commerce excursion, City of Cleveland.Credit: Library of Congress.
	City of Cleveland, Board of Commerce excursion.Credit: Library of Congress.		Board of Commerce excursion on City of Cleveland, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.
	An excursion steamer which goes up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Louis every summer. It stops along the way at various towns and cities, takes passengers on a four hour "moonlite" ride, has dance orchestra, elaborate ballroom and various.Credit: Library of Congress.		Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion steamer approaching lock.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Excursion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Excursion" is used about 369 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.46%	367	14,753
Noun (proper)	0.27%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.27%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	369	N/A

Expressions using "excursion": advance purchase excursion fare ♦ excursion boat ♦ excursion bus ♦ excursion diving ♦ excursion fare ♦ excursion rate ♦ excursion ticket ♦ excursion tour ♦ go on an excursion ♦ lunar excursion module ♦ power excursion ♦ reactor excursion. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "excursion": excursion-train.
	Ending with "excursion": installation-cum-excursion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "excursion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		uitstappie (outing, sightseeing, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Albanian		ekskursion (hike, jaunt, outing, ramble, tour, treat, trip), udhëtim (drive, itineracy, itinerancy, journey, passage, peregrination, ride, round trip, rove, tour, travel, trek, trip, wayfaring), largim nga tema. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزهة (ball, outing, promenade, ramble, ride, run, stretch one's legs, trip), ‏زوغان (elusion, jink), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), ‏رحلة قصيرة (jaunt, pleasure trip), ‏رحلة بالقطار, ‏شرود (absence, divagation, roaming, wandering). (various references)

Basque		ibilaldi (ramble, tour, travel). (various references)

Bulgarian		увеселителен (amusement, pleasure), туристически (touring, tourist), група туристи, отстъпление (backtrack, departure, digression, retreat, withdrawal), отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), екскурс, екскурзия (hike, jaunt, outing, tour), поход (crusade, expedition), излет (jaunt, touring, treat). (various references)

Catalan		excursió (outing, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Chinese		� 足 (hike), 游览 (tour, Toured, touring). (various references)

Czech		zájezd (journey, pack-tour, tour, trip), výlet (jaunt, outing, tour, trip), odboèka (branch, digression, diversion, turnoff). (various references)

Danish		excursion, ekskursion (tour), udsving (amplitude, oscillation, ripple), udslag (back-fire, bloom, blooming, flash back), tur (tour, trip), reaktorekskursion (power excursion, reactor excursion). (various references)

Dutch		excursie (outing, sightseeing trip, tour), uitstapje (outing, sightseeing trip), trip (journey, outing, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage), toer (journey, line, outing, sightseeing trip, subterfuge, trick, trickery, trip, turn, voyage), tocht (draft, draught, journey, outing, series of blows, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage). (various references)

Esperanto		ekskurso (outing, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Faeroese		útferð (outing, picnic, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Finnish		retki (expedition, outing, picnic, trip, walking tour), retkeily (hiking, outing, rambling), partioretki (commando raid), huviretki. (various references)

French		excursion. (various references)

German		ausflug (flight, hike, hive exit, jaunt, outing, run, sightseeing trip, spree, swarming, tour, trip, walk), exkursion (outing, sightseeing trip, trip), Abweichung (aberrance, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, azimuth, declination, deflection, departure, deviance, deviant, deviation, difference, differentiation, discrepancy, dissent, divergence, drift, mismatch, slip, systematic variation, tolerance, variance, variation), Auslenkung. (various references)

Greek		εκδρομή (jaunt, junket, outing, tour). (various references)

Hebrew		טיול (outing, sightseeing, tour, trip). (various references)

Hungarian		kirándulás (hike, hiking, maroon, outing, picnic, run, sally, spin, tour, trip), kikalandozás. (various references)

Indonesian		ekskurai, tamasya (outing, picnic, sightseeing), darmawisata (field trip, outing). (various references)

Italian		gita (jaunt, journey, outing, tour, trip), escursione (hike, jaunt, outing, ramble, range, span, tour, treat, trip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遊山 (outing, picnic), 行楽 (outing, picnic, pleasure trip), 清遊 , 回遊 (circular tour), エキス剤 (COMBINE, eccentric, ecstasy, Ecuador, ecumenism, equitable, equity, equity finance, Excalibur, Excelan, excellent, exchange, exchange order, excursion fare, excursion ticket, excuse me, executor, exercise, exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, exorcist, exotic, exoticism, exotisme, expedition, expense, expensive, expire, explorer, explosion, explosion shot, export, express, expression, expressway, extension, extent, exterior, external, extract, literature), 修学旅行 (field trip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうがくりょ�"う (field trip), せいゆう (radio actor, trip to the West, westward trip), かいゆう (circular tour, migration), �"うらく (interrelationship, outing, picnic, pleasure trip, statistics confounding), ゆさ�" (outing, picnic), エクスカーション . (various references)

Korean		소�'�. (various references)

Manx		turrys (crossing, crossing of sea, expedition, itinerary, jaunt, journey, outing, passage, progress, run, tour, transit, transit of planet, trip, walk, walk of postman). (various references)

Norwegian		utflukt (outing, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Occitan		escorreguda (ramble, tour). (various references)

Pig Latin		excursionay

Polish		wycieczka (outing, sightseeing trip). (various references)

Portuguese		excursão (flight, jaunt, outing, run, Sally, sightseeing trip, tour, trip, tripping, wander). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		excursão. (various references)

Romanian		excursie (camping, digression, dissertation, jaunt, outing, run, sightseeing trip, tour, trip). (various references)

Russian		экскурсия (cheap trip, ramble), прогулка (airing, drive, jaunt, journey, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, saunter, stroll, turn, walk), поездка (journey, ride, trip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ekskurzija (outing), izlet (hike, jaunt, junket, outing, picnic), digresija (degression, digression, divagation, tangent). (various references)

Spanish		excursión (cruise, hike, jaunt, junket, outing, picnic, raid, run, sightseeing trip, spree, tour, trek, trip). (various references)

Swedish		utflykt (airing, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, picknic, picnic, ramble, Sally, trip). (various references)

Turkish		sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), gezinti (airing, hike, jaunt, outing, prom, promenade, ride, run, Sally, stroll, trip, walk, walking tour), gezi (journey, locomotion, outing, promenade, sightseeing, tour, travel, trip), farklılık (discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, inequality, variety), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, check out, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divergency, divorce, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, segregation, separation, sequestration, severance, split, split up, sunder, sunderance, turn off), çelişki (antinomy, cleavage, contradiction, contradictoriness, contrast, discrepancy, paradox, variable). (various references)

Ukranian		екскурсія (out, outing, outleap), екскурс (excursus). (various references)

Vietnamese		cuộc đi chơi (jaunt, outing, trip). (various references)

Welsh		pleserdaith (trip), gwibdaith. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	excursus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "excursion": excursionist, excursionists, excursions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Excursion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excrusion, excursio, excurssion, excurtion, excusion. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "excursion" (pronounced iksker"zhun)
5	-k er" zh u n	incursion.
4	-er" zh u n	aspersion, aversion, conversion, dispersion, diversion, immersion, inversion, perversion, reversion, submersion, subversion, version.
3	-zh u n	abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-u-x"
	-1 letter: coinsure.
	-2 letters: coenuri, coiners, cronies, orceins, recoins, urinose.
	-3 letters: censor, cerous, coiner, conies, cornus, cosier, cosine, course, cousin, crones, crouse, cruise, cruxes, curies, curios, exonic, icones, incurs, incuse, insure, inures, irones, nosier, orcein, orcins, oscine, ounces, recoin, recons, rouens, rusine, senior, source, unisex, urines, ursine.
	-4 letters: ceros, cines, cions, cires, coins, coirs, cones, conus.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-u-x"
	+1 letter: excursions.
	+3 letters: exclusionary, excursionist, executioners.
	+4 letters: excruciations, excursionists.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 63 75 72 73 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#117 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ford excursion	586	cruise shore excursion	23
excursion	426	excursion voyage	22
excursion limousine	93	ford excursion accessory	22
daily excursion in tuscany	89	excursion for sale	22
excursion mirc	73	2000 ford excursion	21
shore excursion	72	cruise excursion	21
weekend excursion	69	new ford excursion	21
ford excursion used	61	ford excursion rental	21
excursion quebec	54	buy ford excursion	20
tour and excursion	47	cozumel shore excursion	20
excursion irc	44	buy excursion	19
san diego harbor excursion	36	new excursion	19
excursion laurentides	35	bargain excursion	19
excursion script	30	bargain ford excursion	19
charleston excursion fishing	30	boat excursion jet	18
alaska shore excursion	28	excursion thule	18
excursion train	27	excursion kayak	17
ford excursion for sale	27	alaska excursion	17
used excursion	26	ship island excursion	17
excursion lyrics weekend	24	2003 ford excursion	17
		carnival excursion shore	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Excursion

Definitions: Excursion

Excursion

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Excursion

Synonyms: Excursion

Synonyms within Context: Excursion

Circuition

Journey

Crosswords: Excursion

Modern Usage: Excursion

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Excursion

carnival excursion shore

Modern Translations: Excursion

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Romanian

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Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Excursion

Derivations & Misspellings: Excursion

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Excursion"

Anagrams: Excursion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Excursion

45 78 63 75 72 73 69 6F 6E

. -..- -.-. ..- .-. ... .. --- -.

01000101 01111000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#117 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

0045 0078 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E

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