expedition
a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,860 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,768 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country also: military expedition, hostile expedition
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose an expedition was sent to explore Mars
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
- a journey taken for pleasure also: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay many summer excursions to the shoreit was merely a pleasure trip
- the property of being prompt and efficient also: dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness it was done with dispatch
expedition in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And so Lena was ordered to take charge of the expedition.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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The Grave Beowulf’s Expedition to Heort The Soul’s Complaint against the Body From the French Song: Hark!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Reverend Henry Ward Beecher was to have accompanied the expedition, but urgent duties obliged him to give up the idea.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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These repeated aggressions at length opened the eyes of the East India Government, and an expedition was accordingly assembled at Bombay.
The pirates own book · Charles Ellms · Chapter 1
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More and more uneasy he grew, more sure that the expedition to which he was pledged was not strictly “on the square.”
The City of Fire · Grace Livingston Hill · Chapter 1