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expedition
Overview of noun expedition
The noun expedition has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (4) expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition -- (a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country)
2. (3) expedition -- (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars")
3. (3) expedition -- (a journey organized for a particular purpose)
4. (1) excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay -- (a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field")
5. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness -- (the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun expedition
5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
=> campaign, military campaign
=> operation, military operation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
expedition
=> working group, working party
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
expedition
=> journey, journeying
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> journey, journeying
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
=> pace, rate
=> temporal property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun expedition
4 of 5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
=> Crusade
Sense 2
expedition
HAS INSTANCE=> Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sense 3
expedition
=> scouting trip
=> campaign, hunting expedition, safari
=> exploration, geographic expedition
Sense 4
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> airing
=> field trip
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun expedition
5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
=> campaign, military campaign
Sense 2
expedition
=> working group, working party
Sense 3
expedition
=> journey, journeying
Sense 4
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> journey, journeying
Sense 5
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
Antonyms of noun expedition
Member Holonyms of noun expedition
Substance Holonyms of noun expedition
Part Holonyms of noun expedition
Member Meronyms of noun expedition
Substance Meronyms of noun expedition
Part Meronyms of noun expedition
Meronyms of noun expedition
Holonyms of noun expedition
Attributes of noun expedition
Derived Forms of noun expedition
2 of 5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
RELATED TO>(adj) expeditionary#1
=> expeditionary
Sense 5
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
RELATED TO>(adj) expeditious#1
=> expeditious, prompt, timesaving
Domain of noun expedition
1 of 5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
TOPIC>(noun) military#1, armed forces#1, armed services#1, military machine#1, war machine#1
Domain Terms of noun expedition
Familiarity of noun expedition
expedition used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun expedition
5 senses of expedition
Sense 1
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
> campaign, military campaign
=> expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
HAS INSTANCE=> Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign
HAS INSTANCE=> Okinawa, Okinawa campaign
HAS INSTANCE=> Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign
HAS INSTANCE=> Wilderness Campaign
Sense 2
expedition
> working group, working party
=> expedition
Sense 3
expedition
> journey, journeying
=> commute
=> drive, ride
=> long haul
=> mush
=> odyssey
=> trip
=> passage, transit
=> expedition
=> digression, excursion
=> schlep, shlep
=> trek
=> tour, circuit
=> pilgrimage, pilgrim's journey
=> excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> voyage
=> way
Sense 4
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
> journey, journeying
=> commute
=> drive, ride
=> long haul
=> mush
=> odyssey
=> trip
=> passage, transit
=> expedition
=> digression, excursion
=> schlep, shlep
=> trek
=> tour, circuit
=> pilgrimage, pilgrim's journey
=> excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> voyage
=> way
Sense 5
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
=> fleetness
=> immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
=> dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> promptness, promptitude
Meronyms of noun expedition
5 senses of expedition
Sense 2
expedition
=> working group, working party
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
HAS MEMBER: quorum
HAS MEMBER: membership, rank
Sense 3
expedition
=> journey, journeying
HAS PART: stage, leg
Sense 4
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
=> journey, journeying
HAS PART: stage, leg
Holonyms of noun expedition
Grep of noun expedition
expedition
geographic expedition
hostile expedition
hunting expedition
lewis and clark expedition
military expedition
Grep of adj expedition
expeditionary
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