Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite objective: an expedition against the enemy stronghold; a scientific expedition to the South Pole.
- n. The group undertaking such a journey.
- n. Speed in performance; promptness. See Synonyms at haste.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being freed from impediments; hence, expeditiousness; promptness; haste; speed; quickness; despatch.
- n. The state of being expedited or put in motion; progress; march.
- n. An excursion, journey, or voyage made by a company or body of persons for a specific purpose; also, such a body and its whole outfit: as, the expedition of Xerxes into Greece; Wilkes's exploring expedition; a trading expedition to the African coast.
- n. Synonyms Celerity, nimbleness, alertness.
- n. Trip, raid.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
- n. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
- n. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition.
- n. The body of persons making such excursion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with
expedition . - n. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
- n. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific
expedition ; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- n. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- n. the property of being prompt and efficient
- n. a journey taken for pleasure
- n. a journey organized for a particular purpose
Etymologies
- From Latin expeditio. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English expedicioun, military campaign, from Old French expedition, from Latin expedītiō, expedītiōn-, from expedītus, past participle of expedīre, to make ready; see expedite. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lewis by Michael Pritchett: Like Lewis and Clark's epic trek more than 200 years ago, Michael Pritchett's novel about their expedition is an arduous journey.”
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“From their names the expedition is usually known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition.”
“The fact that the expedition is to be a joint one causes some regrets of another kind at home.”
““You are familiar, I trust, with the disappearance of the Sir John Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage.””
“If Penelope is using you to find her husband, why are you dreaming of the Franklin expedition?”
“There was a lack of detail in many areas, such as, if the expedition is well into Amazonia, and are totally spent and half-dead from starvation and disease, how did they get out in order that they undertake the next expedition?”
“I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I reveal the expedition is not alone.”
“Cheryl, try an urchin expedition during next year's lent - it's a lot of fun.”
“The purpose of the current expedition is to reconstruct the world of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) before Western man set foot on the island of Mauritius and wiped out the species.”
“But it was primarily a Magellan-meets-Darwin expedition in which Venter and his crew sifted the sea for enough biological material to map the genome of, well, the entire planet Earth, collecting millions of microbes on filter paper and shipping them back to Rockville, Maryland, for analysis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘expedition’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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He Goes a-Pickarooning
Here be a trove of words and phrases associated (fore or aft) with picarooning / pickarooning, scavenged from Google Books citations.
The Prince Edward Island folksong Mick Riley inspi...wagabone, privateer, at every corner, up and down, pirate, expeditions, life, look, rascals, expedition, literary, adventurers and 53 more...
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Edits
edit, edits, editor, editorialize, Mediterranean, premeditated, credit, creditworthy, limited edition, expedition, discredited, heredity and 54 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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Naresh_Gre
The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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"A List of His MAJESTY's Ships and Ve...
Boston: Re-Printed and Sold at J. Draper's Printing-Office in Newbury-Street. (Price Sixteen Pence single.)
See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Journeys
Unexpected or not. :)
journey, pilgrimage, voyage, trek, tour, excursion, trip, jaunt, hadj, haj, schlep, junket and 57 more...
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More than Meets the Eye
Words that mean more than what I thought they do.
arch, husband, offices, swell, slight, jot, see, graft, plumb, hitch, psych, rake and 61 more...
Tweets
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