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excursion

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of excursion

1 a short trip for pleasure

our weekend excursions have encompassed virtually all parts of our home state

Synonyms of excursion

jaunt, junket, outing, ramble, sally, sashay, sortie, spin

Words Related to excursion

journey, travel(s), voyage

expedition, odyssey, safari

hike, peregrination, trek, walk

2 a departure from the subject under consideration

the professorʼs frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend

Synonyms of excursion

aside, digression, divagation, tangent

Words Related to excursion

excursus, parenthesis

circuitousness, circularity, circumlocution, diffuseness, prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness

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