mission

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʃn̩/, /ˈmɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: mis‧sion

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.
   • 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 1044372886:

     [I]n either of theſe Ships, there ſhould be a Miſsion of three of the Fellowes, or Brethren of Salomons Houſe; [...]

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.

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.

• 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.

• Ionisms

mission

1. genitive singular of missio

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

• IPA^(key): /mi.sjɔ̃/

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mission f (plural missions)

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

• mission spatiale
• missionnaire
• missionner

• admission
• démission
• permission
• rémission
• mettre

• → Romanian: misiune
• → Turkish: misyon

• “mission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• misions

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

mission f (plural missions)

1. (Jersey) mission

• mession
• micion
• mision

Borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

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

1. expense; cost; outlay

• French: mission
• Norman: mission

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈɧuːn/

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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 mission ― domestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)

• missionär
• missionsfält
• missionsförbund