expedition
noun
Synonyms
- journey
- passage
- peregrination
- travel(s)
- trek
- trip
Example Sentences
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 Kamoya’s most significant find came in 1984, on an expedition around Kenya’s Lake Turkana with Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, an anthropologist from Penn State. BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022 Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and writer who was also on this expedition, said something that gave me pause. New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Evans hadn't been able to truly inspect each item since they were recovered in the early 1990s and on another expedition in 2014. Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Shark conservationist Kinga Philipps and scientist Tristan Guttridge embark on an expedition through the remote islands of Tahiti to investigate local legends and mysteries about massive tiger sharks. al, 23 July 2022 Champollion was 7 years old when this general with Pharaonic ambitions embarked on the expedition. Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 The Egyptian men and children hired to work on the expedition, however, received almost no recognition. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022 On the expedition, he and she are supposed to chart resource-rich new lands for colonial conquest. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 6 May 2022 See More Word History
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing expedition
Kids Definition
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expedition
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- trip
- journey
- trek
- excursion
- voyage
- tour
- errand
- flight
- cruise
- ride
- travel(s)
- peregrination
- odyssey
- passage
- outing
- jaunt
- sail
- sortie
- pilgrimage
- quest
- junket
- safari
- commute
- hike
- commutation
- sally
- progress
- drive
- walk
- hop
- walkabout
- grand tour
- tramp
- spin
- slog
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of expedition are dispatch, haste, hurry, and speed. While all these words mean "quickness in movement or action," expedition and dispatch both imply speed and efficiency in handling affairs but expedition stresses ease or efficiency of performance and dispatch stresses promptness in concluding matters.
While the synonyms haste and expedition are close in meaning, haste applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness.
Although the words hurry and expedition have much in common, hurry often has a strong suggestion of agitated bustle or confusion.
In some situations, the words speed and expedition are roughly equivalent. However, speed suggests swift efficiency in movement or action.