Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to excursion
Participle: excursioned
Gerund: excursioning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | excursion |
| you | excursion |
| he;she;it | excursions |
| we | excursion |
| you | excursion |
| they | excursion |
Perfect
| I | have excursioned |
| you | have excursioned |
| he;she;it | has excursioned |
| we | have excursioned |
| you | have excursioned |
| they | have excursioned |
Past
| I | excursioned |
| you | excursioned |
| he;she;it | excursioned |
| we | excursioned |
| you | excursioned |
| they | excursioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had excursioned |
| you | had excursioned |
| he;she;it | had excursioned |
| we | had excursioned |
| you | had excursioned |
| they | had excursioned |
Future
| I | will excursion |
| you | will excursion |
| he;she;it | will excursion |
| we | will excursion |
| you | will excursion |
| they | will excursion |
Future Perfect
| I | will have excursioned |
| you | will have excursioned |
| he;she;it | will have excursioned |
| we | will have excursioned |
| you | will have excursioned |
| they | will have excursioned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | excursion |
| you | excursion |
| he;she;it | excursion |
| we | excursion |
| you | excursion |
| they | excursion |
Perfect
| I | have excursioned |
| you | have excursioned |
| he;she;it | have excursioned |
| we | have excursioned |
| you | have excursioned |
| they | have excursioned |
Imperfect
| I | excursioned |
| you | excursioned |
| he;she;it | excursioned |
| we | excursioned |
| you | excursioned |
| they | excursioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had excursioned |
| you | had excursioned |
| he;she;it | had excursioned |
| we | had excursioned |
| you | had excursioned |
| they | had excursioned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would excursion |
| you | would excursion |
| he;she;it | would excursion |
| we | would excursion |
| you | would excursion |
| they | would excursion |
Perfect
| I | would have excursioned |
| you | would have excursioned |
| he;she;it | would have excursioned |
| we | would have excursioned |
| you | would have excursioned |
| they | would have excursioned |
Imperative
| you | excursion |
| we | Let's excursion |
| you | excursion |
Verbs conjugated like 'excursion'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'excursion'
excurse,
excursionise,
excursionize,
accession,
accordion,
cursor,
cushion,
decision,
empassion,
encurse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus. See: Latin '
excursiō'.
Verbs referencing "excursion"
Spanish
escurrir.
Sample Sentences
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1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.
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After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […] [1880, Mark Twain, chapter 49, in A Tramp Abroad:]
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Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow. [1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:]