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Answer for the clue "Short journey ", 5 letters:
jaunt
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Word definitions for jaunt in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Again, I hear the smack of collusion between Johnson and Boswell in their separate accounts of their Highland jaunt . ▪ And that's all we brought back from this expensive jaunt of ours, boy. ▪ He could not afford too many jaunts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jaunt \Jaunt\, v. t. To jolt; to jounce. [Obs.] --Bale.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion , outing , junket , pleasure trip , expedition , sashay ] v. make a trip for pleasure [syn: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s in modern sense of "short pleasure trip," earlier "tiresome journey" (1590s), earlier as a verb, "tire a horse by riding back and forth on it" (1560s), of unknown origin, perhaps from some obscure Old French word. As a verb in the modern sense from ...
Usage examples of jaunt.
In fact the two companies, traveling on commandeered autobuses, were making a pleasant sightseeing jaunt of it.
It is time she started behaving properly, instead of jaunting about the hills with a Renunciate and listening to old people sing.
But if you want my reading, it all started with that little jaunt you took out to Byss about nine years ago.
He watched with perfectly settled emotions as the energetic Miles Glover jaunted up to the podium to accept the El Sol Doubloon on behalf of his cheering crew, and bowed to the applause of millions.
When Geographic took its hundred-year jaunt across the sky at one-tenth light speed, she brought with her three prefabricated factories to manufacture the kind of high-tensile plastics that only zero-gee processing made possible.
Like most Inheritors, Nasst refused to accept that operational duties attendant to even the most complex of transdimensional jaunts left ample room for stray thought.
The sipper was a ranking executive in the business that owned the magazine paying for this journalistic jaunt to China, so everyone acknowledged his right to be a trifle insistent.
The three of them jaunted back to us together hand in hand, and Sulke snapped their tethers back on herself.
Joshua had read about this animal, but he had never encountered it during his recurring thalamic jaunts into the Pleistocene and so could reach no conclusion about the accuracy of its depiction.
It would have to be a good story - Basset would soon detect any flaw and would think she was asking permission for a pleasure jaunt just at the time he might need her in Washington.
I had hypothesized in my latest jaunt through the Age of Great Buildings, lingered on in this desolate era.
At first Tucker had tried to discourage Laura from taking these nightly jaunts, because she feared Frank Parcher might threaten or harm her in the way of a warning to Tucker.
Of all the men that had been in Number Three with Prew he was the one Prew would have picked as least likely to succeed, but he came in with them after his three day jaunt in the Hole as mildly affable as ever.
Her voice was unstrained, as though she were used to a brisk morning jaunt.
Girta nodded and raised an eyebrow questioningly, knowing full well that Eadyth often pursued her beekeeping jaunts when troubled.