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EXPEDITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A journey taken for pleasure
Example:
after cautious sashays into the field
Synonyms:
excursion; expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay
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"):
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
Synonyms:
expedition; hostile expedition; military expedition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Derivation:
expeditionary ((used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The property of being prompt and efficient
Example:
it was done with dispatch
Synonyms:
despatch; dispatch; expedition; expeditiousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expedition" is a kind of...):
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Derivation:
expeditious (marked by speed and efficiency)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
Example:
an expedition was sent to explore Mars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
Context examples:
He insists that I shall go with him on another expedition.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The research team collected 18 sponge samples for the study during two research expeditions to Guam.
(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)
Toby Jackson, a plant scientist in the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, joined Gorgens on an expedition to visit the giants.
(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)
They were part of a British expedition lead by Colonel John Hunt sent specifically to reach what was regarded at the time as the 'third pole.'
(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Out of 200 who were with me in the San Juan expedition, 145 died in a single night.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hence the health-giving expedition to Lausanne.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The scientists conducted a research expedition to the Southern Line Islands, a remote island chain south of Hawai'i.
(Bacteria living near coral reefs change in synchrony across distances, National Science Foundation)
The expedition in July 2018 provided a unique opportunity to see first-hand how a massive input of external nutrients alters marine ecosystems that are finely attuned to low-nutrient conditions.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
Studies of the sediment cores obtained during the expedition will focus on understanding how Earth's tectonic plates move and how the global climate system works.
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
