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# crusade

«crusade» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Crusades were wars from about 1095 to 1291 in which…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crusade, crusades); verb (crusade, crusades, crusaded, crusading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history, church) The Crusades were wars from about 1095 to 1291 in which Christian armies from Europe fought mainly to take control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#m1)

2) A crusade is a long, strong effort to change something that people believe is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#m2)

3) To crusade is to work hard and publicly for a cause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the Crusades involve knights, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin; many people on all sides died, and today historians see the wars as violent and complicated, remembered differently by Christians, Muslims and Jews. In everyday life and news, a crusade is a campaign: a crusade against litter or for clean water. Phrases: «a crusade against», «on a crusade», «the First Crusade».

### examples

- The First Crusade began in 1096. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x1)
- Richard the Lionheart fought in the Third Crusade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x2)
- Thousands died in the Crusades on all sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x3)
- Our class started a crusade against plastic litter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x4)
- She crusaded for safer crossings near schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x5)
- Grandad is on a crusade to get everyone to recycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x6)
- The crusaders built castles in the Holy Land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/#x7)

### note

Noun for a person: crusader. Capital C for the historical wars (the Crusades). Today some people avoid «crusade» for campaigns because of the violent history, so «campaign» is often a better choice.

### In the corpora

- [Both sides in the Crusades did brave things and cruel things, and ordinary people of all three faiths suffered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crusade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.