JAUNT
Dictionary entry overview: What does jaunt mean?
• JAUNT (noun)
The noun JAUNT has 1 sense:
1. a journey taken for pleasure
Familiarity information: JAUNT used as a noun is very rare.
• JAUNT (verb)
The verb JAUNT has 1 sense:
1. make a trip for pleasure
Familiarity information: JAUNT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JAUNT (noun)
Meaning:
A journey taken for pleasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
excursion; pleasure trip; outing; jaunt; junket; sashay; expedition
Context examples:
many summer excursions to the shore / it was merely a pleasure trip / after cautious sashays into the field
Hypernyms ("jaunt" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jaunt"):
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)
• JAUNT (verb)
Meaning:
Make a trip for pleasure
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
jaunt; travel; trip
Cause:
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jaunt"):
junket; junketeer (go on a pleasure trip)
travel to; visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)
journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)
ply; run (travel a route regularly)
commute; travel back and forth (travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home)
peregrinate (travel around, through, or over, especially on foot)
Sentence frames:
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