Crossword clues for jaunt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jaunt \Jaunt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jaunting.] [Cf. Scot. jaunder to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer, dial. Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh. akin to E. jump. Cf. Jaunce.]
To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
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To ride on a jaunting car.
Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.]
--Thackeray.
Jaunt \Jaunt\, v. t.
To jolt; to jounce. [Obs.]
--Bale.
Jaunt \Jaunt\, n.
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A wearisome journey. [R.]
Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his a["e]ry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.
--Milton. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
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 1640s. Related: Jaunted; jaunting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A wearisome journey. 2 A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. 2 (context intransitive English) To ride on a jaunting car. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To jolt; to jounce.
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]
Wikipedia
Jaunt may refer to:
- Jaunt, a virtual reality company
- Jaunt (sculpture), a 1977 sculpture designed by Robin Jensen, at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- " The Jaunt", a 1981 short story by Stephen King, first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine
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Teleportation, called jaunting in
- Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (the origin of the term "to jaunte")
- the Stephen King story
- the TV series The Tomorrow People
Jaunt is a Palo Alto, CA-headquartered company that specializes in virtual reality (VR). Jaunt was founded in 2013 and its mission is to bring premium VR experiences to the world through distribution/production of content, products (e.g. cameras), and VR Technology (e.g. software).
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.