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Webster 1913 Edition

Expedition

Exˊpe-di′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
expeditio
: cf.F.
expédition
.]
1.
The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
With winged
expedition
Swift as the lightning glance
.
[GREEK]
2.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
Putting it straight in
expedition
.
[GREEK]
3.
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; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
The
expedition
miserably failed.
Prescott.
Narrative of the exploring
expedition
to the Rocky Mountains.
J. C. Fremont.

Webster 1828 Edition

Expedition

EXPEDI'TION

,
Noun.
[L. expeditio.] Haste; speed; quickness; dispatch. The mail is conveyed with expedition.
1.
The march of an army, or the voyage of a fleet, to a distant place, for hostile purposes; as the expedition of the French to Egypt; the expedition of Xerxes into Greece.
2.
Any enterprize, undertaking or attempt by a number of persons; or the collective body which undertakes. We say, our government sent an expedition to the Pacific; the expedition has arrived.

Definition 2024

Expedition

Expedition

See also: expedition and expédition

German

Noun

Expedition f ‎(genitive Expedition, plural Expeditionen)

  1. expedition
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 5/2010, page 101:
      Ein 20-köpfiges Team von Top-Bergsteigern aus Nepal will sich Ende April auf den Weg in die Gipfelregion des Mount Everest machen, um den Zivilisationsmüll zu beseitigen, den frühere Expeditionen dort hinterlassen haben.
      A team of 20 top mountain climbers from Nepal wants to head to the summit region of Mount Everest at the end of April to clean up the waste of civilization that earlier expeditions have left behind there.

Declension

expedition

expedition

See also: Expedition and expédition

English

Noun

expedition ‎(plural expeditions)

  1. (obsolete) To act of expediting something; prompt execution.
  2. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
  3. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
      one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
      he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
    • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 33:
      The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting irregular, as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
  4. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
  5. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
    a naval expedition
    a scientificexpedition
    an expedition across the Alps
  6. The group of people making such excursion.

Translations

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

expedition c

  1. an expedition, a journey, a mission
  2. an office

Declension

Inflection of expedition 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative expedition expeditionen expeditioner expeditionerna
Genitive expeditions expeditionens expeditioners expeditionernas

Related terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɛkspediˈtsi̯oːn/

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