safari
IPA: sʌfˈɑri
noun
- A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment.
- A caravan going on a safari.
- (by extension) Any trip for the purpose of discovering something new or acquiring prizes or trophies.
verb
- (intransitive) To take part in a safari.
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Examples of "safari" in Sentences
- I went to the safari and took many pictures.
- The animals make the forest safari very exciting.
- Safari Junction is the walk through part of the park.
- They shared their first kiss in the barn of the safari park.
- A common touristic activity in the district is the rural safari.
- The baboons at the safari camp used to sit on the African termite mounds.
- Most of the surrounding land is under forest and the Matetsi Safari Area.
- Elephant safari is introduced in the zoo starting from the summer of 2008.
- It was he who developed the safari park and opened the house to the public.
- Koga is also part of the guard that protects the border of the Safari Zone.
- "The audience will take what we call a safari, which in Swahili means a journey, to that area."
- For some unknown reason, I get a major energy boost and continue on my word safari going nowhere.
- He apologised for the delays etc and wished us a happy safari (safari is Swahili for 'journey') and then we were on our way to the bus station.
- The second is Richard Francis Burton, "the secret agent and explorer who introduced the word 'safari' to the English language," the translator into English of the "Kama Sutra" and "The Arabian Nights," whose "myth as a man rested not just on his carefully objective work but also on his personal appeal as a libertine, experimenter, and worldly figure who not only had knowledge but had lived it."
- By the end of Queen Victoria’s reign, the word safari had begun to evoke in the minds of her subjects engravings of storied hunting grounds along the Cape of Good Hope; watercolors presenting the curious spectacle of a Masai warrior posing stiffly beside an acacia in his regional “costume”; pen-and-ink depictions of jungle lilies previously unknown to European botanists; or drawings of big cats paying surprise visits to men making camp for the night.