Mission

Mission

1. A district municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
2. A neighborhood of San Francisco.

• Ionisms

16th century, learned borrowing from Latin missio. Later reinforced by cognate French mission.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈsjoːn/

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• Hyphenation: Mis‧si‧on

Mission f (genitive Mission, plural Missionen, diminutive Missiönchen n)

1. (countable) mission (set of tasks)

   Synonyms: Auftrag, Sendung

   Der Agent wurde in geheimer Mission ins Ausland entsandt.

   The agent was sent abroad on a secret mission.

2. (countable) mission (group of people appointed for such a task; their place of work)

   Synonyms: Gesandtschaft, Delegation, Abordnung, Kommando

3. (uncountable, definite) mission, evangelization, proselytism (religious, especially Christian, activism)

   Synonyms: Missionierung, Evangelisierung

   Die Mission der Heiden war ihr ein lebenslanges Anliegen.

   The evangelization of the heathen was a life-long concern of hers.

• Not much used in military parlance, where Einsatz is the usual word for English mission.

• Handelsmission
• Weltraummission
• Äußere Mission, Innere Mission

• missionieren
• Missionar
• Missionsauftrag

• “Mission” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mission” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /miˈsi̯oːn/

Mission f (plural Missione)

1. mission

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary