Picnic
['pɪknɪk]
Definition
(noun.) any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion.
(verb.) eat alfresco, in the open air; 'We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday'.
Checker: Norris--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
(v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
Edited by Caleb
Definition
n. a short excursion into the country by a pleasure-party who take their own provisions with them: an entertainment in the open air towards which each person contributes.—v.i. to go on a picnic:—pr.p. pic′nicking; pa.t. and pa.p. pic′nicked.—n. Pic′nicker.
Typist: Nicholas
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment. Dreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young. Storms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary displacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business. See Kindred Words.
Edited by Katy
Examples
- Well, that's cool, said Laurie to himself, to have a picnic and never ask me! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There was a picnic crowd for you! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a sort of picnic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is to be a village picnic--a gipsying, they call it--at East Egdon, and I shall go. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At last they all mounted the grassy bank, to the picnic. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her 'charming novel', and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Tea parties didn't amount to much, neither did picnics, unless very well conducted. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They picnicked in the grove, and six hundred of them went up the tower. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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