mission

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EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪʃn̩/, /ˈmɪʃən/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃən
  • Hyphenation: mis‧sion

NounEdit

mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)

  1. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
  2. (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
  3. (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
  4. (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
  5. A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
  6. (obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
  7. A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
    Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.

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VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) To send on a mission.
  2. (intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

mission

  1. genitive singular of missio

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

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NounEdit

mission f (plural missions)

  1. mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)
  2. mission (religious evangelism)

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DescendantsEdit

  • Romanian: misiune
  • Turkish: misyon

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

NounEdit

mission f (plural missions)

  1. (Jersey) mission

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

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

  1. expense; cost; outlay

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mission c

  1. (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
  2. (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism
    inre missiondomestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mission 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mission missionen missioner missionerna
Genitive missions missionens missioners missionernas

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