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# expedition

noun (an expedition, expeditions)

«expedition» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An expedition is a long, organised journey to a far place, especially to explore, study or climb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#m1)
2. The expedition is also the group of people making the journey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#m2)
3. (informal, humorous) A short trip with a purpose, like a shopping expedition. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#m3)
4. A military expedition is an organised journey by an army to attack or conquer a place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#m4)

### In the lessons

In history and geography lessons explorers make expeditions to the poles, jungles and mountains; in science, scientists go on expeditions to study animals. In everyday talk it can be a joke about an ordinary trip. Phrases: go on an expedition, a scientific expedition, an expedition to the South Pole, shopping expedition.

### Examples

- The explorers set off on an expedition to the South Pole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x1)
- The expedition took six months and twenty men. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x2)
- Scientists went on an expedition to study rainforest frogs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x3)
- Our class went on a fossil-hunting expedition to the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x4)
- Mum called the trip to the supermarket «a shopping expedition». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x5)
- The mountain-climbing expedition reached the top at dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x6)
- The leader of the expedition kept a diary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x7)
- It happened that the men of Lochlann came on an expedition against Ireland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/#x8)

### Note

Countable: an expedition. Spelling: ex-pe-DI-tion. In maths problems about expeditions, look for total distance, food per day and number of days (multiply).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «expedition» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expedition/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expedition» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/expedition.html) on Mova free.