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jaunt

/ˈd͡ʒɔːnt//d͡ʒɔːnt/

jaunt noun: a wearisome journey.

Noun

jaunt (plural jaunts)

  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

Verb

jaunt (third-person singular simple present jaunts, present participle jaunting, simple past and past participle jaunted)

  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 manner1818, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
  4. (obsolete) To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.

jaunt meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

jaunt in Tamil

உலாவு, சஞ்சரி, பவனி வா, குறுகிய உல்லாசப் பயணம், மகிழ்ச்சி உலா, சஞ்சாரம்

jaunt in Urdu

مٹر گشت, سیر

jaunt in Bengali

প্রমোদবিহার

jaunt in Malayalam

ചെറിയ ഉല്ലാസയാത്ര
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jaunt in Kannada
ವಿಹಾರ, ಪರ್ಯಟನ, ಸಂಚಾರ, ಪ್ರಯಾಣ

Examples of jaunt in a sentence

  • Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.
  • While on the hustings, both men made quick jaunts into the South during late April.
  • Drake thought of it as a sort of “grown-up gap year,” a reflection of the growing popularity, over the last few decades, of Wanderjahr-like jaunts.

All 11 example sentences with jaunt

Forms of jaunt

Noun
pluraljaunts
Verb
third-person singular presentjaunts
present participlejaunting
past participlejaunted
pastjaunted

Plural of jaunt: jaunts

Origin of jaunt

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.

Words formed from jaunt

Words that rhyme with jaunt

Questions about jaunt

What does jaunt mean?
Jaunt means a wearisome journey.
What is jaunt in Tamil?
Jaunt in Tamil is உலாவு, சஞ்சரி, பவனி வா. See Jaunt meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jaunt?
Jaunt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jaunt?
Jaunt is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/.
What is the plural of jaunt?
The plural of jaunt is jaunts.

Words near jaunt in the dictionary

  1. jaundies
  2. Jaunpur
  3. Jaunpuri
  4. Jaunpuris
  5. jauns
  6. jaunt
  7. jaunted
  8. jauntee
  9. jaunter
  10. jaunters
  11. jauntier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jaunt (page history and authors); jaunt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jaunt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jaunt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jaunt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jaunt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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