different between expedition vs pilgrimage

English

Etymology

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ksp??d???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)

1. (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
2. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
3. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […] .

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:

     he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.

   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 33:

     The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting irregular, as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.

4. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
5. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose

6. (collective) The group of people making such excursion.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

expedition (third-person singular simple present expeditions, present participle expeditioning, simple past and past participle expeditioned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
   • 1950, Sewage and Industrial Wastes Engineering (volume 21, page 588)

     The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.

   • 1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (page 185)

     I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

expedition c

1. an expedition, a journey, a mission
2. an office

Declension

Related terms

• expeditionschef

English

Etymology

From Middle English pilgrimage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l???m?d??/
• Hyphenation: pil?gri?mage

Noun

pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

1. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.

   In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.

2. (by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

   Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.

Related terms

• pilgrim

Translations

Verb

pilgrimage (third-person singular simple present pilgrimages, present participle pilgrimaging, simple past and past participle pilgrimaged)

1. To go on a pilgrimage.

Related terms

• peregrinate

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pilgermage, piligrimage, pilgrinage, pilgrenage, pilgramege, pilgrimache, pilrimage, pelrimage

Etymology

From Old French peligrinage, pelrimage, variants of pelerinage (“pilgrimage”).

Noun

pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

1. pilgrimage
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.

     Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

     And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes

     To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

     Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,

     And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,

     To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

• English: pilgrimage
• Scots: pilgrimag, pilgrimage, pilgramage