excursion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A short trip taken for pleasure, often by a group.

   The school organised an excursion to the science museum.

2. 2
   noun

   A brief departure from the main topic; a digression.

   After a short excursion into history, she returned to her main point.

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.

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