Definition of Jaunt

1. Noun. A journey taken for pleasure. "After cautious sashays into the field"

Exact synonyms: Excursion, Expedition, Junket, Outing, Pleasure Trip, Sashay
Generic synonyms: Journey, Journeying
Specialized synonyms: Airing, Field Trip
Derivative terms: Excursionist, Junket

2. Verb. Make a trip for pleasure.
Exact synonyms: Travel, Trip
Causes: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Junket, Junketeer, Travel To, Visit, Journey, Travel, Ply, Run, Commute, Peregrinate
Derivative terms: Traveler, Traveller, Trip, Tripper

Definition of Jaunt

1. v. i. To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

2. v. t. To jolt; to jounce.

3. n. A wearisome journey.

Definition of Jaunt

1. Noun. (archaic) A wearisome journey. ¹

2. Noun. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) (obsolete) '' To jolt; to jounce. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jaunt

1. to make a pleasure trip [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jaunt

jauks
jaunce
jaunced
jaunces
jauncing
jaundice root
jaundiced
jaundices
jaundicing
jaunse
jaunsed
jaunses
jaunsing
jaunt (current term)
jaunted
jauntee
jaunter
jaunters
jauntie
jauntier
jaunties
jauntiest
jauntily
jauntiness
jauntinesses
jaunting
jaunting car
jauntingly

Literary usage of Jaunt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"The wprd jaunt had of old a graver meaning, equivalent to a wearisome journey ... So Milton— " Our Saviour meek, and with untroubled After his лету jaunt, ..."

2. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"The proper sense of jaunt is to play tricks, play the fool, hence to talk wildly, and hence to ramble, rove. Of Skand. origin. Sw. dial. gan/a, ..."

3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, Martha Joanna Lamb, John Austin Stevens, Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1886)
"MINOR TOPICS A “jaunt” TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1762 BY A DAUGHTER OF JAMES ALEXANDER So graphically have the trials and sufferings of the Colonists been ..."

4. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens (1867)
"A jaunt TO THE LOOKING-GLASS MAIRIE AND BACK. I MAY premise that the word Prairie is variously pronounced ..."

5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1886)
"A SUMMER jaunt IN 1773. CONTRIBUTED BY REV. GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, DD [The title to the original MS. which the Eev. Dr. Hills has kindly contributed is: ..."

6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1832 Perhaps I shall have a case of congressional lobbying, by which I can make it a jaunt of pleasure and profit.— Lorenzo Hoyt to Jesse Hoyt, Sept. 10. ..."

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