excursion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a journey taken for pleasure

   many summer excursions to the shore

2. 2
   noun

   A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

   While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.

3. 3
   noun

   A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

   Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.

4. 4
   verb

   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, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.

5. 5
   noun

   wandering from the main path of a journey

6. 6
   noun

   A field trip.

7. 7
   noun

   An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.

8. 8
   noun

   A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

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.