'Expedition' definitions:
Definition of 'expedition'
(from WordNet)
noun
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition]
noun
An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
noun
A journey organized for a particular purpose
noun
A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
noun
The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]
Definition of 'Expedition'
From: GCIDE
- Expedition \Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. exp['e]dition.]
- 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. [1913 Webster]
- With winged expedition [1913 Webster]
- Swift as the lightning glance. ? [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. [1913 Webster]
- Putting it straight in expedition. ? [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The expedition miserably failed. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. --J. C. Fremont. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expedition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- advancement,
- adventure,
- agility,
- air speed,
- alacrity,
- briskness,
- campaign,
- celerity,
- circuit,
- clarification,
- course,
- crusade,
- decisiveness,
- dispatch,
- drive,
- easing,
- emprise,
- enterprise,
- excursion,
- expediting,
- expeditiousness,
- exploration,
- facilitation,
- fastness,
- flight,
- flit,
- flurry,
- forwarding,
- furtherance,
- goodwill,
- grand tour,
- ground speed,
- haste,
- hastening,
- helping along,
- holy war,
- hurry,
- hustle,
- immediacy,
- immediateness,
- instantaneousness,
- jaunt,
- jihad,
- journey,
- junket,
- knots,
- lightning speed,
- miles per hour,
- mission,
- nimbleness,
- outing,
- package tour,
- peregrination,
- peregrinations,
- pilgrimage,
- pleasure trip,
- precipitation,
- preferential treatment,
- progress,
- promotion,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- punctuality,
- punctualness,
- quest,
- quickening,
- quickness,
- rapidity,
- readiness,
- round pace,
- round trip,
- rpm,
- rubberneck tour,
- run,
- rush,
- rushing,
- rustle,
- safari,
- sally,
- sharpness,
- shoot,
- simplification,
- simplifying,
- smartness,
- smoothing,
- snappiness,
- special treatment,
- speed,
- speediness,
- speeding,
- spryness,
- stalk,
- streamlining,
- summariness,
- swift rate,
- swiftness,
- tour,
- travels,
- trek,
- trip,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- velocity,
- voyage,
- war