Definition for Crusade:

• One of those military expeditions undertaken during the middle ages under the banner of the cross for the recovery of the Holy Land from the power of the Saracens; any hostile joint enterprise conducted in a similar enthusiastic or fanatical spirit.

Synonyms for Crusade:

• n.

  •
  • challenge,
  • care,
  • work,
  • dedication,
  • pursuit,
  • undertaking,
  • strain,
  • heavy lifting.
  •
  • seek,
  • exert yourself,
  • toil,
  • put your back into something,
  • action,
  • buckle down,
  • apply yourself,
  • forge,
  • overwork,
  • work at.
  •
  • start.
  •act (noun)
  • cause,
  • effort,
  • crusade.
  •agitate (noun)
  • agitate.
  •battle (noun)
  • havoc,
  • encounter,
  • significant contact,
  • scrimmage,
  • strife,
  • blitzkreig,
  • Wars,
  • sortie.
  •campaign (noun)
  • march,
  • demonstration.
  •campaign for cause (noun)
  • evangelism.
  •crusade (noun)
  • press,
  • fight.
  •deed (noun)
  • ballgames,
  • by-plays,
  • do's,
  • happenin,
  • follow throughs,
  • byplays,
  • by plays,
  • big ideas,
  • by play.
  •enterprise (noun)
  • biggies,
  • out-fits,
  • pro position,
  • pro-positions,
  • pro positions,
  • pet projects,
  • out-fit,
  • out fit,
  • out fits.
  •expedition (noun)
  • fleet,
  • exploration,
  • entrada,
  • traveller,
  • voyager,
  • travellers,
  • voyagers,
  • voyage.
  •holy war (noun)
  • holy-war,
  • holy crusades.
  •organized movement (noun)
  • organized-movement,
  • grassroots movements.
  •pilgrimage (noun)
  • pilgrimage.
  •quest (noun)
  • ex-aminations,
  • re search,
  • in quest,
  • in quests,
  • in-quest,
  • ex aminations,
  • in-quests,
  • pilgrimmages,
  • delvings,
  • ex amination,
  • re searches,
  • pursuals.
  •warfare (noun)
  • combat,
  • contest,
  • bloodshed,
  • offensive,
  • struggle,
  • war,
  • guerre,
  • aggression,
  • tussle,
  • warfare,
  • engagement,
  • hostility,
  • warpath,
  • scramble,
  • conflict,
  • scuffle.

• v.

  •campaign (verb)
  • hits trail,
  • politicked,
  • whistlestops,
  • whistle-stopped,
  • electioneered,
  • contending for,
  • going to grass roots,
  • running for,
  • whistle stopped,
  • solicits votes,
  • hits the trail,
  • mudslings,
  • press flesh,
  • whistle stops,
  • shake hands kiss babies,
  • whistle stopping,
  • whistle-stops,
  • went grass roots,
  • whistlestopped,
  • goes grass roots,
  • mudslinged,
  • whistlestopping,
  • hitting the trail,
  • going grass roots,
  • ringing doorbells,
  • soliciting votes,
  • rings doorbells,
  • runs for,
  • shook hands and kiss babies,
  • hitting trail,
  • shaking hands kiss babies,
  • shaking hands and kiss babies,
  • went to grass roots,
  • shakes hands and kiss babies,
  • goes to grass roots,
  • shook hands kiss babies,
  • hit trail,
  • ran for,
  • ringed doorbells,
  • go grass roots,
  • contended for,
  • shakes hands kiss babies,
  • solicited votes,
  • contends for,
  • muckrakes,
  • rang doorbells.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • slave.
  •transit
  • journey.

Paraphrases for Crusade:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    campaign.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    crusader.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    offensive, crackdown, crossover.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    crusader, quest, cross, struggle, campaigning.

Antonyms for Crusade:

• n.

  • campaign for cause
    stoppage, halt.

Crusade Sentence Examples:

• The event which has been called the fifth crusade was not wanting, so far, in real importance, and it would have to be described here, if it had been really a crusade; but it does not deserve the name.

• Let's preach a crusade.

Homophones for Crusade:

• christ, correct, corkwood, cryostat, cherished, corixidae, crusted, crew cut, characid, crack shot, corset, crush out, crocuta, crested, christie, crossed eye, croquet, corrected, corked, cragged, courgette, croquette, crockett, careerist, correctitude, charge sheet, crusty, crazyweed, crosscut, crocketed, cross-eyed, crossed, czarist, cricket, characidae, crocket, creosote, cork jacket, charcot, church-state, car seat, caraway seed, crosshead, crosstie, cross out, crow-sized, crushed, corrugate, coarctate, crouched, carry weight, cherry-sized, charged, corrugated, crazed, cursed with, crest, carrycot, cerussite, cruciate, cracked, crocked, cursed, church hat, cracidae, crocethia, coraciidae, crassitude, curst, crazy weed, circuit, curiosity, crochet, crooked, cricetidae, crust, Cheshire Cat, coruscate.

Hypernym for Crusade:

• n.

  • act
    campaigning, ad blitz, war, fund-raising effort, gay liberation movement, ad campaign, charm campaign, youth crusade, fund-raising drive, youth movement, women's lib, anti-war movement, reform, feminism, lost cause, candidacy, consumerism, fund-raising campaign, gay lib, electioneering, advertising campaign, political campaign, candidature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement.

Hyponym for Crusade:

• n.

  • act
    expedition, hostile expedition, military expedition, venture.

• v.

  • competition
    take the field, campaign.
  • social
    advertise, advertize, promote, push.