Associations to the word «Expedition»
Noun
- Everest
- Arctic
- Christensen
- Overland
- Byrd
- Explorer
- Greenland
- Yellowstone
- Antarctica
- Pancho
- Wilkes
- Whaling
- Naturalist
- Surveying
- Exploration
- Geologist
- Climber
- Wills
- Lars
- Baptiste
- Zoologist
- Himalayas
- Dependency
- Cortes
- Ascent
- Botanist
- Thebes
- Inuit
- Navigator
- Clark
- Mountaineer
- Sledge
- Survey
- Tibet
- Names
- Champlain
- Alta
- Gama
- Livingstone
- Norwegian
- Athenian
- Flinder
- Atlantis
- Roanoke
- Cabot
- Voyage
- Nile
- Adventurer
- Surveyor
- Tahiti
- Glacier
- Custer
- Geographer
- Scouting
- Vicksburg
- Terra
- Algiers
- Pole
- Despatch
- Fremont
- Bonaparte
Adjective
Wiktionary
EXPEDITION, noun. (obsolete) To act of expediting something; prompt execution.
EXPEDITION, noun. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
EXPEDITION, noun. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
EXPEDITION, noun. 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.
EXPEDITION, noun. The body of persons making such excursion.
Dictionary definition
EXPEDITION, noun. A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.
EXPEDITION, noun. An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars".
EXPEDITION, noun. A journey organized for a particular purpose.
EXPEDITION, noun. A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field".
EXPEDITION, noun. The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.