Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is Mission - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Missions; Mission (disambiguation); Mission River (disambiguation)
mission
(missions)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A mission is an important task that people are given to do, especially one that involves travelling to another country.
Salisbury sent him on a diplomatic mission to North America...
...the most crucial stage of his latest peace mission.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
A mission is a group of people who have been sent to a foreign country to carry out an official task.
...a senior member of a diplomatic mission.
= delegation
N-COUNT: usu with supp
3.
A mission is a special journey made by a military aeroplane or space rocket.
...a bomber that crashed during a training mission in the west Texas mountains.
...the first shuttle mission.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
4.
If you say that you have a mission, you mean that you have a strong commitment and sense of duty to do or achieve something.
He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from the evil...
= vocation
N-SING: usu poss N, also n of N
5.
A mission is the activities of a group of Christians who have been sent to a place to teach people about Christianity.
They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
N-COUNT
Mission
·vt To send on a mission.
II. Mission ·noun Dismission; discharge from service.
III. Mission ·noun An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
IV. Mission ·noun An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
V. Mission ·noun That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
VI. Mission ·noun Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an Embassy.
VII. Mission ·noun The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
VIII. Mission ·noun A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
mission
¦ noun
1. an important assignment, typically involving travel abroad.
[treated as sing. or plural] a group of people sent on a mission.
an organization or institution involved in a long-term assignment abroad.
a military or scientific expedition.
2. the vocation of a religious organization to spread its faith.
a building or group of buildings used by a Christian mission.
3. a strongly felt aim or calling.
Origin
C16 (denoting the sending of the Holy Spirit into the world): from L. missio(n-), from mittere 'send'.
Wikipedia
Mission
Mission (from Latin missio 'the act of sending out') may refer to:
Examples of use of Mission
1. JPL manages the Cassini mission for NASA‘s Science Mission Directorate.
2. "The safest mission is a successful mission," he said.
3. And it‘s a noble mission and it‘s the right mission.
4. It is a Nato mission, not just a British mission.
5. The Toronto Star (Canada) / MITCH POTTER KANDAHAR—It is a difficult mission, a noble mission, a winnable mission.