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Definition of Safari

1. Noun. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).

Definition of Safari

1. Noun. A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Safari

1. to go on a hunting expedition [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safari

Literary usage of Safari

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"RHINO AND GIRAFFE WHEN we killed the last lions we were already on safari, and the camp was pitched by a waterhole on the ..."

2. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"RHINO AND GIRAFFE WHEN we killed the last lions we were already on safari, and the camp was pitched by a waterhole on the ..."

3. The Big Game of Africa by Richard Tjader (1910)
"If it is said, for instance, that anyone is " out on safari," it conveys the ... safari," therefore, is one of the first words the traveler learns of the ..."

4. The Big Game of Africa by Richard Tjader (1910)
"If it is said, for instance, that anyone is " out on safari," it conveys the ... safari," therefore, is one of the first words the traveler learns of the ..."

5. On the Gorilla Trail by Mary Hastings Bradley (1922)
"This caravan life is called being on safari. A safari day begins early—four or three, by starshine or moonshine or black night. It takes courage to throw ..."

6. Orlando & Central Florida by Don Philpott (1999)
"You then walk through the Oasis Garden to the safari Village, the first of the five main areas of the park that radiate out around the Tree of Life. ..."

7. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"... safari Many months earlier, between 11 July and 10 August 1958, still within the period of active research in the Bugesera, our long East African safari ..."

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