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".
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