EXCURSION
\ɛkskˈɜːʃən], \ɛkskˈɜːʃən], \ɛ_k_s_k_ˈɜː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXCURSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A wandering from a subject; digression.
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Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
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A wandering from a subject; digression.
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Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A going forth: an expedition: a trip for pleasure or health: a wandering from the main subject: a digression.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Deviation from a prescribed course; a going beyond fixed limits; a digression; a trip for health or pleasure.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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