Meaning

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

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

    Ausflug, Exkursion

    экску́рсияekskúrsija

    екску́рсіяekskúrsija

  2. (Australia)A field trip.

  3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

    Abschweifung, Exkurs, Digression

    э́кскурсékskurs, отклоне́ниеotklonénije

    е́кскурсékskurs

    wandering from the main path of a journey

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

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

  6. Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern

    After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.

Examples

35 sentences
  1. Six of us are going on an excursion to the beach this weekend.

    deSechs von uns machen dieses Wochenende einen Ausflug an den Strand.

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  2. The excursion was canceled.

    Екскурсію скасували.

    ruЭкскурсию отменили.

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  3. We enjoyed the excursion very much.

    ruЭкскурсия нам очень понравилась.

    deDer Ausflug hat uns sehr gut gefallen.

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  4. We are talking about the excursion.

    ruМы говорим об экскурсии.

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  5. All in all, the excursion was pleasant.

    ruВ целом экскурсия оставила приятное впечатление.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
brief recreational trip:
wandering from the main subject:
Русский
By meaning 2
brief recreational trip:
wandering from the main subject:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
brief recreational trip:
wandering from the main subject:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginnin

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.

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Forms

plural: excursions
Singularexcursion
Pluralexcursions

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
recreational trip:journeyA2tripA1jaunt
wandering from the main subject:digressionexcursus
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
field trip:incursion

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
excursion — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto