noun
Meaning 1
A wearisome journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
jaunt
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɔːnt/
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US: /d͡ʒɔnt/
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cot-caught-merger: /d͡ʒɑnt/
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rhymes with -ɔːnt
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CMU ARPABET: JH AO1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To ride on a jaunting car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To jolt; to jounce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
a journey taken for pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- many summer excursions to the shore
- it was merely a pleasure trip
- after cautious sashays into the field
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: excursion, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: journey, journeying
Narrower terms: airing, field trip
verb
Meaning 8
make a trip for pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: travel, trip
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: junketeer, junket, travel to, visit, travel, journey, ply, run, commute, peregrinate
History
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: излет (izlet) — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Bulgarian: екскурзия (ekskurzija) — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Czech: výlet — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Czech: vyjížďka — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Czech: vycházka — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Dutch: uitstap — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Finnish: retki — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- French: balade — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- French: promenade — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- German: Ausflug — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- German: Vergnügungsfahrt — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- German: Spritztour — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Norwegian Bokmål: utflukt — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Romanian: plimbare — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Spanish: paseo — short excursion for pleasure or refreshment
- Bulgarian: отивам на излет (otivam na izlet) — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Czech: vyjít si — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Czech: vyjet si — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Czech: jít na výlet — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Dutch: omzwerven — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Dutch: een uitstap maken — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- German: herumstreunen — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- German: einen Ausflug machen — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Romanian: plimba — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Romanian: face o plimbare — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion
- Russian: ката́ться (katátʹsja) — to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion