Dictionary

jaunt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒɑnt/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /d͡ʒɔnt/ (US)
• /d͡ʒɔːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A wearisome journey.
   • Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest. 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
   • Fie, what a jaunt have I had. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet:
2. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
   • Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

Forms

Translations (18)

fr promenade (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · ro plimbare (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · pl wyprawa (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · pl wypad (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · fi retki (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · cs vycházka (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · cs výlet (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · de Spritztour (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · cs vyjížďka (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · de Ausflug (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · nl uitstap (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · es paseo (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · de Vergnügungsfahrt (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · bg излет (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · nb utflukt (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · fr balade (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · bg екскурзия (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment) · pl wycieczka (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment)

jaunt en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒɑnt/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /d͡ʒɔnt/ (US)
• /d͡ʒɔːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
2. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To jolt; to jounce.
   • To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner 1818, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register:
4. (obsolete) To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.

Forms

Deriveds

jaunter · jaunting car

Translations (13)

cs vyjet si (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · de einen Ausflug machen (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · pl wybrać się na wycieczkę (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · pl wybierać się na wycieczkę (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · ru ката́ться (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · ro face o plimbare (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · de herumstreunen (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · nl omzwerven (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · cs vyjít si (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · cs jít na výlet (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · bg отивам на излет (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · nl een uitstap maken (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) · ro plimba (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion)