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excursion

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"Short trip"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted ceinorsuxStarts with EEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (EXCURSION).

Definitions

  1. wandering from the main path of a journey

Word origin

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. Compare excursus.

Used in a sentence

  • While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
  • 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.
  • After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.

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