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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missi?nem, accusative of missi? (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”), from mitt? (“I send”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?sh?n, m?sh??n, IPA^(key): /?m??n?/, /?m???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: mis?sion

Noun

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) (Catholic tradition) 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.
6. (obsolete) dismissal; discharge from service
7. A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)

1. (transitive) To send on a mission.
2. do missionary work, proselytize

Further reading

• 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 (2001–2021) , “mission”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Ionisms

Finnish

Noun

mission

1. genitive singular of missio

French

Etymology

From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missi?, missi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.sj??/

Noun

mission f (plural missions)

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

Derived terms

• missionnaire
• missionner

Related terms

• admission
• démission
• permission
• rémission
• mettre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• misions

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missi?, missi?nem.

Noun

mission f (plural missions)

1. (Jersey) mission

Old French

Alternative forms

• mession
• micion
• mision

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missi?, missi?nem.

Noun

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

1. expense; cost; outlay

Descendants

• French: mission
• Norman: mission

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???u?n/

Noun

mission c

1. (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
2. (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism

Declension

Related terms

• missionär
• missionsfält
• missionsförbund

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?n??/
• Rhymes: -i?n??

Etymology 1

From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +? -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).

Noun

meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)

1. (of words, expressions or symbols)
   1. The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.

      • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

   2. The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
2. The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.

   The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.

3. (of a person's actions) Intention.
   • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

     It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.

Synonyms

• (denotation of words etc.): definition
• (connotation of words etc.):
• (purpose, significance):
• (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent

Hyponyms

• proposition

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From mean +? -ing.

Verb

meaning

1. present participle of mean

Adjective

meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)

1. Having a (specified) intention.
2. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"

     I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:

     [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.

References

• meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• amening