mission

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An important job or task that a person or group is given.

   They were sent on a secret mission to London.

2. 2
   noun

   An important aim or purpose that someone is determined to achieve.

   She made it her mission in life to help homeless people.

3. 3
   noun

   A military operation given to a unit, especially by air.

   The planes were on a bombing mission.

4. 4
   noun

   The work of a religious missionary, or a place where it is based.

   Many cities in the Americas grew from old Spanish missions.

Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).

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