Definitions for Crusades

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Crusades cru·sade

Spelling: [kroo-seyd]

IPA: /kruˈseɪd/

Crusades is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in Crusades (acderssu).

Definitions for Crusades

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 Crusades

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

Examples for Crusades

No knight of the crusades could have been more attentive to her slightest wish.

Probably, if they had continued in Palestine, there would have been no crusades.

She spoke no English but because of my Hindi, I was able to go over and hear stories about her life and her crusades.

Peter the Hermit, seconded by the pope, had given birth to the crusades.

Yet Spitzer alone was able to use both attributes for his crusades.

The Road to Jerusalemby Jan Guillou An epic novel about love and war during the crusades.

Other crusades followed, of which mere mention must suffice.

Then there were the crusades, which in these times brought the East in touch with the West.

And Bossie will once again be in the thick of it, all the more dangerous for having learned from his past crusades.

The latest of the epic cycles was that concerning the crusades.