foray
To participate in a forayTo participate in a foray.
» Is this your first foray into magic?
Meaning
3 sensesTo participate in a foray.
To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.
(archaic, transitive)To scour an area for goods as part of a foray.
- briefly enter enemy territory
- steal goods; take as spoils
Examples
3 sentencesIs this your first foray into magic?
Her brief foray into painting produced only one completed work.
Based on initial data analysis, the collared bears rarely forayed outside the park.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrFrom Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
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Forms
forays, foraying, forayed, forayedSynonyms
8 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle