Dictionary entry details
• EXPEDITION (noun)
Meaning:
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
military expedition; hostile expedition; expedition
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expedition"):
Crusade (any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims)
Meaning:
An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
an expedition was sent to explore Mars
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
working group; working party (a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved)
Instance hyponyms:
Lewis and Clark Expedition (an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806)
Meaning:
A journey organized for a particular purpose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expedition"):
scouting trip (an expedition undertaken to gain information)
campaign; hunting expedition; safari (an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa))
exploration; geographic expedition (to travel for the purpose of discovery)
Meaning:
A journey taken for pleasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
excursion; jaunt; outing; pleasure trip; junket; sashay; expedition
Context examples:
many summer excursions to the shore / it was merely a pleasure trip / after cautious sashays into the field
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expedition"):
airing (a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air)
field trip (a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination)
Meaning:
The property of being prompt and efficient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
expeditiousness; despatch; dispatch; expedition
Context example:
it was done with dispatch
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)
