crusade
Meaning of crusade
noun
- Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
- Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
- A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
a crusade against drug abuse
- A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
- A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
- To go on a military crusade.
- To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.
Information about crusade
- The plural form of crusade is: crusades.
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Hyphenation of crusade
cru-sade
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- crusade is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crusade synonyms
Meaning campaign:
campaign, cause, drive, movement, effort
Meaning Crusade:
Meaning fight:
fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
Translation of crusade
- German: Kampagne, Sache
- Italian: crociata, causa, campagna, missione
- French: croisade
- Spanish: cruzada, causa, campaña, misión, cometido, empeño
- Portuguese: cruzada
Anagrams of crusade
Words that rhyme with crusade
Sade, sade, demipesade, lancepesade, pesade, camisade, croisade, palisade, pavisade, jamrosade, torsade, ambassade, anspessade, embassade, glissade, passade, tsade, Crusade, arquebusade, harquebusade
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