crusade in English
- crusade⇄crusade, noun, verb, -saded,-sading.
- crusade⇄noun 1. Often, Crusade. any one of the Christian military expeditions between the years 1096 and 1291 to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems.
2a. a war having a religious purpose and approved by the church; holy war.
b. an evangelistic c - crusade⇄v.i. to take part in a crusade.
Ex. (Figurative.) We crusaded against littering.