expedition
/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
US pronunciation
American sound/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
ɛkspɪˈdɪʃən
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- 3rd syllable stress
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- Final -tion sounds like shun
ɛkspɪ - ˈdɪʃən -> expedition
Myanmar meaning
(n) သိပ္ပံပညာရပ်နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များရှာဖွေရန်ခရီးထွက်ခြင်း။စုံစမ်းစူးစမ်းရန် စနစ်တကျဖွဲ့စည်းချီတက်ည့်ခရီး။မဆိုင်းမတွ ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း။
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expedition /ekspǝ'dÇʃn/ n
(က) ရည်ရွယ်ချက်တစ်ခုခုဖြင့် စုရုံးသွား သော ခရီး။ စူးစမ်းလေ့လာရေးခရီး။ plan/ go on an expedition to the North Pole ❍ a hunting expedition ❍ (joc) a shopping expedition.
(ခ) ယင်းခရီးသွားအဖွဲ့။ members of the Mount Everest expedition.
❏ expeditionary /-ʃǝnǝri; US -neri/ adj ယင်းအဖွဲ့နှင့် ဆိုင်သော။ (အထူးသဖြင့်) နိုင်ငံရပ်ခြား ၌ စစ်ဆင်ရေးအတွက် ဖွဲ့စည်းစေလွှတ်သော (တပ်)။ an expeditionary force (eg an army sent to take part in a war abroad).
More examples
- [expedition to] : The 1910 expedition to Antarctica led by Captain Scott
- [make/mount/undertake an expedition] : We are hoping to mount the first manned expedition to Mars by 2020.
- [on an expedition] : She died while on an expedition to Peru to study nocturnal mammals.
- The expedition successfully reached the top of Mt Everest.
- We plan to go on a shopping expedition.
- Rumours spread amongst the rebels that a massive punitive expedition against them was being prepared.
Synonyms
journey, voyage, trip, outing, mission, tour, alacrity, campaign, caravan, cavalcade, celerity, company, crew, crowd, cruise, crusade, dispatch, enterprise, entrada, excursion, expeditiousness, exploration, explorers, fleet, goodwill, group, haste, hurry, hustle, jaunt, junket, party, patrol, peregrination, picnic, posse, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, quest, quickness, rapidity, readiness, safari, squadron, swiftness, swing, team, travel, travellers, trek, undertaking, voyagers, wayfarers
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