Crusade

Definition: Crusade

Crusade

Noun

1. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort".

2. Any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11-13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.

Verb

1. 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; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate".

2. Go on a crusade; fight a holy war.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crusade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Crusade

Warfare

Battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations; (arena); warpath.

Crosswords: Crusade

Crusade for Prayer (1952)

The Mayor's Crusade (1912)

Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade (1909)

The High Crusade (1994)

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Crusade (reference)

• Crusade in Europe (reference)

• Kids at Work : Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (reference)

• StarCraft #1: Liberty's Crusade (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Crusade (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Crusade (Vol. 2) (reference)

• Crusade to Limbo (reference)

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (reference)

• Doctor Who - The Crusade & The Space Museum (reference)

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Widescreen Edition) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crusade (1999 Television Series) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Guardian's Crusade (reference)

• I.J.: Last Crusade (reference)

• Kingdom Crusade (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Turks massacre Armenians : a crusade that ought to be. Credit: Library of Congress.

Start of the great crusade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman's crusade against intemperance / drawn by C.S. Reinhart. Credit: Library of Congress.

Put people first : join the Liberal crusade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jeremy Thorpe leads the great crusade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mothers' Crusade for Victory over Communism : Why should we help communists kill Americans?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Attend the Christian Crusade session during the New England "God and country" rally, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, July 4, 1970. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Sudan

In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad ibn Abdalla proclaimed himself the Mahdi, or the "expected one," and began a religious crusade to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan. (references)

Nigeria

In the early 19th century the Fulani leader, Usman dan Fodio, launched an Islamic crusade that brought most of the Hausa states and other areas in the north under the loose control of an empire centered in Sokoto. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "crusade": crusade against smth. ♦ crusade for ♦ crusade for smth. ♦ fifth Crusade ♦ first Crusade ♦ fourth Crusade ♦ second Crusade ♦ seventh Crusade ♦ sixth Crusade ♦ third Crusade ♦ youth crusade. Additional references.

Albanian

marr pjesë në kryqëzatë, kryqëzatë (crucifix), fushatë (campaign, drive). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حملة عنيفة, ‏حملة صليبية, ‏حرب صليبية, ‏شارك في حملة صليبية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кръстоносен поход (jihad), акция (action, campaign, share), поход (excursion, expedition). (various references)

Czech

křížová výprava. (various references)

Farsi 

نهضت (Cause, Movement), جهادکردن , جنگ مذهبی , جنگ صلیبی . (various references)

Finnish

ristiretki. (various references)

French

croisade. (various references)

German

kreuzzug. (various references)

Greek 

σταυροφορία. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסע צלב. (various references)

Hungarian

keresztes hadjárat. (various references)

Indonesian

perang salib, memelopori (be at the forefront, fight for, pioneer). (various references)

Italian

crociata (crossing, intersection). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

聖戦 (holy war). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいせ�" (careful selection, fresh, holy war, military expedition, sexual gland, well). (various references)

Manx

jannoo croshaid, croshaid. (various references)

Pig Latin

usadecray

Portuguese

cruzada. (various references)

Romanian

cruciadã. (various references)

Russian 

поход. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

voditi krstaški rat, krstaški rat. (various references)

Spanish

cruzada (crosswort). (various references)

Swedish

korståg. (various references)

Turkish

savaşa katılmak, savaş (battle, campaign, combat, conflict, fight, fighting, fray, struggle, war, warfare, wartime), mücâdele etmek (agonize, battle, be at war with, be up against, buffet, combat, compete, fight, fight a battle, strive, struggle, tussle, war, wrestle), haçlı seferi. (various references)

Ukrainian

хрестовий похід, кампанія (campaign), похід (campaign, procession). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cuộc vận động lớn. (various references)

Welsh

croesgad. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crusade": crusaded, crusader, crusaders, crusades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crusade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caussade, Crimaldi, Crostade, cruad, cruase, crusdae, crustade, Cruzate, Cruzatt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cadres, caused, causer, cedars, cesura, crudes, cursed, sacred, sauced, saucer, scared.

-2 letters: acred, acres, arced, arcus, aures, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cause, cedar, crude, cruds, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curse, daces, dares, dears, druse, duces, duras, dures, ecrus, escar, raced, races, rased, reads, sauce, scare, scaur, serac, sucre, urase.

+1 letter: accursed, adducers, caroused, crusaded, crusader, crusades, cudbears, durances, surfaced, traduces.

+2 letters: aeroducts, archdukes, barleducs, croustade, crusaders, crusadoes, cruzadoes, cuirassed, educators, purchased, reaccused, reductase, surceased, traducers, transduce, underacts, unscarred.

+3 letters: abductores, accursedly, ambuscader, cadaverous, carburised, coruscated, crassitude, croustades, debauchers, discourage, drupaceous, endurances, obduracies, oversauced, predaceous, predacious, quadriceps, reductants, reductases, reeducates, resurfaced, rudbeckias, rusticated, scrummaged, subcordate, subtracted, surcharged, transduced, transducer, transduces, undercards, underclass, undercoats, uppercased.