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: January 9, 2025
\ik-SKER-zhun\ noun
What It Means
Excursion refers to a trip, and especially to a short one made for pleasure. Excursion is also often used figuratively to refer to a deviation from a direct, definite, or proper course, and often in particular to a digression.
// Some of Maya’s most cherished childhood memories are of fishing excursions with her grandpa.
// Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass is an excursion into a fantastical world where nothing is what it seems to be, and everything appears to be what it is not.
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