mission

English

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Etymology

From French mission (“a sending, a mission”), Old French mission (“expense”), from Latin missiō (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”), from mittō (“to send”).

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

mission (countable and uncountable; plural missions)

1. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer.
2. (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
3. (uncountable) (the missions) collective term for third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
4. (countable) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.

Derived terms

Terms derived from mission

diplomatic mission intermission intromission mission creep

mission impossible mission mix mission statement permanent mission

permission remission space mission transmission

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to mission

mess message

messenger missile

missionary missive

Translations

set of tasks that fulfills a purpose

Arabic: رسالة (ar) (risālah) f. Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: мисия (bg) f. Catalan: missió (ca) f. Croatian: misija (hr) f. Czech: poslání (cs) n., mise (cs) f. Dutch: missie (nl) f. Esperanto: misio (eo) Finnish: tehtävä (fi) French: mission (fr) f. Georgian: დავალება (ka) (davaleba) German: Auftrag (de) m. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: küldetés (hu) Indonesian: tugas (id)

Italian: missione (it) f. Japanese: 任務 (ja) (ninmu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: misso (la) f. Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Polish: misja (pl) f. Portuguese: missão (pt) f. Romanian: misiune (ro), însărcinare (ro) f., misiuni (ro) f. pl. Russian: миссия (ru) (míssija) f. Slovene: naloga f. Spanish: misión (es) f. Thai: ภารกิจ (th) Turkish: görev (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Welsh: cyrch (cy) m.

religious evangelism

Catalan: missió (ca) Croatian: misija (hr) f. Dutch: missie (nl) f., zending (nl) f. Finnish: missio (fi), lähetys (fi), lähetystyö (fi) French: mission (fr) f. Georgian: მისია (ka) (misia) German: Mission (de) f. Hungarian: misszió (hu) Japanese: 伝道 (ja) (dendō)

Korean: 사명 {|sa:myeung|} Latin: missio (la) f. Polish: misja (pl) f. Portuguese: missão (pt) f. Slovene: misijon m. Spanish: misión (es) f. Swahili: misheni (sw) Welsh: cenhadaeth (cy) f.

Verb

mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)

1. (transitive) To send to a mission.

External links

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

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Finnish

Noun

mission

1. Genitive singular form of missio.

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French

Etymology

Latin missiō

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Noun

mission f. (plural missions)

1. mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)

Anagrams

• misions

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Old French

Alternative forms

• mession
• micion
• mision

Etymology

From Latin missiō

Noun

mission f. (oblique plural missions, nominative singular mission, nominative plural missions)

1. expense; cost; outlay

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Noun

mission c.

1. (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
2. (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism

   inre mission

   domestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)

Declension

Declension of mission

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mission	missionen	missioner	missionerna
genitive	missions	missionens	missioners	missionernas

Related terms

• missionär
• missionsfält
• missionsförbund