Synonyms for expedition
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Voyage
voyage, excursion, journey, pleasure trip, tour, travel, pilgrimage, jaunt, outing, junket, sashay
2. Dispatch
dispatch, despatch UK, readiness, celerity, hurry, haste, fastness, alacrity, speed, rapidity, quickness, promptness, promptitude, expeditiousness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- n. 2
An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
Related words
- Word family
- expeditionist exploration
Forms
- Plural
- expeditions → voyages, excursions, journeys, tours…
Example sentences
- journey The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
- voyage Someday we will be able to go on a voyage to Mars.
- excursion If it rains tomorrow, there will be no excursion.
By length
- 4 letters
- tour1
- 5 letters
- speed1, hurry2, haste1, jaunt1
- 6 letters
- travel2, voyage2, outing2, junket2, sashay
- 7 letters
- journey2
- 8 letters
- dispatch2, despatch, alacrity4, rapidity4, celerity4, fastness2
- 9 letters
- readiness3, excursion3, quickness2
- 10 letters
- enterprise3, pilgrimage3, quickening3, promptness
- 11 letters
- undertaking4, promptitude
- 15 letters
- expeditiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hurry2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- expédition
- Italiano
- spedizione
- Deutsch
- Abfertigung