The goal or terminal point of a race, a journey, etc. Obsolete. rare.
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释义 | society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > destination (7) scope?1611 The goal or terminal point of a race, a journey, etc. Obsolete. rare. stint1618 Prescribed, destined, or customary limit. of spatial extension or progress. Also, destination or goal of a journey. Obsolete. landing-place1727 transferred and figurative (in preceding senses). A place at which one arrives; a stopping- or resting-place. Thule1771 transferred. As the type of the extreme limit of travel and discovery, chiefly (after Latin usage) in the phrase ultima Thule (farthest Thule)… destination1787 spec. The fact of being destined or bound for a particular place; hence, short for place of destination, the place for which a person or thing is… goal1788 The end point or destination of a journey. Also in figurative contexts with reference to the achievement of an aim or desired outcome (cf. sense 3a). ultimatum1862 Furthest destination; most distant point (to be) reached. |
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