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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>
Related Words journey, travel(s), voyage; circuit, tour; expedition, odyssey, safari; detour; hike, peregrination, trek, walk; pilgrimage
2
a departure from the subject under consideration <the professor's frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend>
Related Words excursus, parenthesis; rambling; circuitousness, circularity, circumlocution, diffuseness, prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness
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