crusade

See also Crusade

English

Etymology

Formed as a hybrid of Middle French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, cruzata. In English use since the 1570s.

Alternative forms

(medieval history): Crusade

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

crusade (plural crusades)

1. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
2. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   a crusade against drug abuse

3. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

Derived terms

• crusader

Related terms

• cross
• crucial
• crucifer
• crucify
• crucifixion
• excruciate
• excruciation

Translations

military expedition

• Finnish: ristiretki (fi)

grand concerted effort

• Albanian: kryqëzatë (sq) f
• Arabic: حرب صليبية (ar) (Harb Saliibíyya) f
• Armenian: խաչակրաց արշավանք (hy) (xačakrac' aršavank')
• Bulgarian: кръстоносен поход (bg) (krǎstonosen pohod)
• Catalan: croada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十字軍 (cmn), 十字军 (cmn) (shízìjūn)

• Czech: křížová výprava (cs) f
• Dutch: kruistocht (nl) m
• Esperanto: krucmilito (eo)
• Finnish: ristiretki (fi)
• French: croisade (fr) f
• German: Kreuzzug (de) m, Feldzug (de) m
• Greek: σταυροφορία (el) (stavroforía) f

• Italian: crociata (it) f
• Japanese: 十字軍 (ja) (じゅうじぐん, jūjigun)
• Latvian: krusta karš (lv)
• Maltese: krusadi (mt), kruċjati (mt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korstog (nb) n

  Nynorsk: krossferd (nn) f, krosstog (nn) n, korstog (nn) n

• Polish: krucjata (pl) f
• Romanian: cruciadă (ro)
• Russian: крестовый поход (ru) (krestóvyj poxód) m
• Slovak: križiacka výprava (sk) f
• Spanish: cruzada (es) f
• Swedish: korståg (sv)
• Turkish: haclilar (tr)

References

• AskOxford.com

See also

• holy war
• jihad
• Miles Christi

Verb

crusade (third-person singular simple present crusades, present participle crusading, simple past and past participle crusaded)

1. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

Translations

to make a grand concerted effort

• Finnish: olla (fi) ristiretkellä (fi), taistella (fi), kampanjoida (fi)

External links

• crusade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• crusade in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911