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crusade - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- noun A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.
- noun A concerted effort or vigorous movement for a cause or against an abuse.
- intransitive verb To engage in a crusade.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To engage in a crusade; support or oppose any cause with zeal.
- noun A military expedition under the banner of the cross; specifically, one of the medieval expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
- noun Any vigorous concerted action for the defense or advancement of an idea or a cause, or in opposition to a public evil: as, a temperance crusade; the crusade against slavery.
- noun Same as
crusado .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
- noun Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm.
- noun A Portuguese coin. See
Crusado . - intransitive verb To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the military expedition undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
- noun figuratively A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
- verb To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
- verb go on a crusade; fight a holy war
- noun a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- verb exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both ultimately from Latin crux, cruc-, cross.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Formed as a hybrid of Middle French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, cruzata. In English use since the 1570s.
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Examples
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In a letter written in 1954, Farber used the word crusade to describe their campaign against cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In a letter written in 1954, Farber used the word crusade to describe their campaign against cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In a letter written in 1954, Farber used the word crusade to describe their campaign against cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life.
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The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life.
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He says because George Bush, the president, declared has declared a crusade -- what he called a crusade against Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq, that he cannot accept the (INAUDIBLE) lawyers.
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To know this and yet continue on the crusade is a logic of cowardice and extreme idiocy.
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He says because George Bush, the president, has declared a crusade, what he called a crusade, against Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq, that he cannot accept these U.S. lawyers.
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The supreme leader of Iran tonight said the pope's comments are proof of what he calls a crusade against Muslims.
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Liz Kiriona, 47, and Lyn Mehana, 45, have been on what they call a crusade
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