English
mission
see also: Mission
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈmɪʃn̩/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈmɪʃən/
Noun

mission

  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.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗, pages 18–19 ↗:
      [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.
  8. (Australia, becoming obsolete) An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
  9. (slang, drugs) A drug run.
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mission (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
Proper noun
  1. A district municipality in British Columbia, Canada.
  2. A neighborhood in San Francisco.
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