trip
/tɹɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unusual or remarkable experience.
noun
An unusual or remarkable experience.
noun
An unusual or remarkable experience.
Example Sentences
- "beach trip, camping trip, fishing trip, school trip, shopping trip"
- "We make annual trips to the museum."
- "I took a weekend trip to Seville."
- "They have been on a trip since last month."
- "I sold my horse and took a trip to Ceylon and back on an Orient boat as a passenger,"
- "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day."
Etymology
From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹɪp/
- British English: /tɹɪp/