Definitions for crusade

crusade cru·sade

Spelling: [kroo-seyd]
IPA: /kruˈseɪd/

Crusade is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in crusade (acdersu).

Definitions for crusade

noun

  1. (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
  2. any war carried on under papal sanction.
  3. any vigorous, aggressive movement for the defense or advancement of an idea, cause, etc.:

verb (used without object)

  1. to go on or engage in a crusade.

Origin of crusade

1570-80; earlier crusada Spanish cruzada; replacing croisade Middle French. See cross, -ade1

Examples for crusade

This, after two dozen of them said they were against Ted Cruz and his defunding Obamacare crusade.

Within days of 9/11 he was talking about a “crusade” to avenge the blow, without realizing how freighted that word was.

Huck Finn, do you mean to tell me you don't know what a crusade is?

It was against these savage Turks that the first crusade was directed.

A crusade is based on the spirit of the people, and the will of volunteers.

But now the senior House Republican is throwing his weight behind a crusade of his own: to keep gay candidates out of Congress.

On the death of his countess, Foulques vowed to go on a crusade.

A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim.

Seventeen years after giving birth to The Daily Show, comedian Lizz Winstead is on a crusade for lady parts.

The return from this crusade was as disastrous as that from the siege of Troy.

Word Value for crusade
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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