mission
See also: Mission
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)
- (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
- (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
- (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
- A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], pages 18–19, →OCLC:
- [I]n either of theſe Ships, there ſhould be a Miſsion of three of the Fellowes, or Brethren of Salomons Houſe; [...]
- (obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
- A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
- Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.
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TranslationsEdit
set of tasks that fulfills a purpose
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religious evangelism
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VerbEdit
mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)
- (transitive) To send on a mission.
- (intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.
Further readingEdit
- mission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mission in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “mission”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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FinnishEdit
NounEdit
mission
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mission f (plural missions)
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DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “mission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.
NounEdit
mission f (plural missions)
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.
NounEdit
mission f (oblique plural missions, nominative singular mission, nominative plural missions)
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NounEdit
mission c
- (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
- (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism
- inre mission ― domestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mission | ||||
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Nominative | mission | missionen | missioner | missionerna |
Genitive | missions | missionens | missioners | missionernas |