different between exploration vs crusade

English

Etymology

From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratioMorphologically explore +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?ks’pl?r??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??kspl???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)

1. The process of exploring.
2. The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.

   The exploration of unknown areas was often the precursor to colonization.

3. The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
4. A physical examination of a patient.

Related terms

• explorative
• exploratory
• explorer

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.spl?.?a.sj??/

Noun

exploration f (plural explorations)

1. exploration

Derived terms

• exploration de données

Related terms

• explorateur m
• exploratif

Further reading

• “exploration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• (medieval history): Crusade

Etymology

From French croisade, introduced in English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruci?ta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruci?tus used as an abstract noun.

Adjectival cruci?tus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade".

Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruci?ta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?u??se?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

crusade (plural crusades)

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.

2. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
3. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   a crusade against drug abuse

4. (politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
5. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

Derived terms

• crusader

Related terms

Translations

Verb

crusade (third-person singular simple present crusades, present participle crusading, simple past and past participle crusaded)

1. (intransitive) To go on a military crusade.
2. (intransitive) To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

Translations

See also

• holy war
• jihad

References

• AskOxford.com

Further reading

• crusade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crusade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crusade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary