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Is crusade a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crusade is a Scrabble US word. The word crusade is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is crusade a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crusade is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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7-letter words (2 found)

CRUSADE,SCAURED,

6-letter words (12 found)

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5-letter words (57 found)

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4-letter words (80 found)

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3-letter words (47 found)

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2-letter words (13 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 212 words from crusade according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crusade

crusade

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 cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun.

Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus 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 cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹuːˈseɪd/
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

crusade (plural crusades)

  1. (historical) Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars.
  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.
  4. (politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
  5. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

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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.

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See also

  • holy war
  • jihad

References

  • AskOxford.com

Further reading

  • “crusade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “crusade”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “crusade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Source: wiktionary.org