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/lˌoʊkəmˈoʊʃən/ Listen

noun

Locomotion n.

The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion."

The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.

The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's; as, do the locomotion.

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Etymology of 'Locomotion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locomotion" Quotes from Famous Books

... he sat in the dark, and far apart, some sense all his own, cultivated through years of deprivation, came to his aid. Peter brought him down the street and round the corner; and Randolph's Chinaman, fascinated by his green shade and his tortuous method of locomotion (once out of his wheeled-chair), did the rest. "You had better stay all night," Randolph had suggested; and he was glad to avoid a second awkward ...

— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller

... questions connected with John's election, and knew nothing of what Vancouver had done in the matter. It was better on many grounds not to stir up fresh trouble, and so long as Vancouver's stables afforded Ronald an easy and economical means of locomotion from Newport to the house of the woman he loved, the friendship that had sprung up was a positive gain. She could not understand the motives that prompted Vancouver in the least. He had made more than one attempt to regain his position ...

— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... a realistic way the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods • Laura Lee Hope

... fellow-passenger if the 12 dollars really did include board, and was told that most certainly it did,—it was the regular fare. Travelling at this rate was literally cheaper than staying at home. It was just one dollar a day each for food, lodgings, and locomotion! This "Anglo-Saxon"—forge below and palace above, as all these boats appear to be—is a noble vessel. The dimensions, as given me by the "clerk" or purser, are—length of keel 182 feet, breadth of beam 26 feet, depth of hull 6 feet, length of cabin 140 feet; two engines 6-1/2 feet stroke; two ...

— American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States • Ebenezer Davies

... rheumatism is almost gone. I can walk without Major Weir, which is the name Anne gives my cane, because it is so often out of the way that it is suspected, like the staff of that famous wizard,[454] to be capable of locomotion. Went to Court, and tarried till three o'clock, after which transacted business with Mr. Gibson and Dr. Inglis as one of Miss Hume's trustees. Then was introduced to young Mr. Rennie,[455] or he to ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

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