crusade

See also Crusade

English

Etymology

Formed as a hybrid of Middle French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both from Middle 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 expedition undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquest the Levant from the Muslims
2. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

Derived terms

• crusader

Related terms

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

Translations

grand concerted effort

Albanian: kryqëzatë (sq) f. Arabic: حرب صليبية (ar) (Harb Saliibíyya) f. Armenian: խաչակրաց արշավանք (hy) (xačakrac' aršavank') Bulgarian: кръстоносен поход (bg) Catalan: croada f. 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) f. Italian: crociata (it) f. Latvian: krusta karš (lv) Maltese: krusadi, kruċjati Polish: krucjata (pl) f. Romanian: cruciadă (ro) Russian: крестовый поход (ru) (krestóvyj poxód) m. Slovak: križiak m. Spanish: cruzada (es) f. Swedish: korståg (sv) Turkish: haclilar

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