English Dictionary

crusade

IPA（発音記号）

/kɹuːˈseɪd/

名詞

歴史的 比喩的用法 古風 古語

(historical) Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.

日本語の意味

11世紀から13世紀にかけて、ヨーロッパのキリスト教徒が、ムスリムからレバントを奪回するために行った軍事遠征、すなわち「十字軍」に関連する意味合いです。

The scholar spent years researching the motivations behind each crusade that set out for the Levant.

その学者は、レヴァントへ向かった各十字軍遠征の動機を数年かけて研究した。

意味（1）

(historical) Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.

During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.

意味（2）

Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

a crusade against drug abuse

意味（4）

(politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.

The same period that has seen social and political crusades increasingly replace religious messages in the pulpits has seen a sharp 35 percent decline in membership of the mainline Protestant denominations associated with the National Council of Churches.

意味（5）

(archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

crusades （ plural ）