# mission
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪʃn̩/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪʃən/
** Audio (General American):(file)
* (Indic) IPA: /miʃin/
* Rhymes: -ɪʃən
* Hyphenation: mis‧sion

### Noun

mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)
* (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
* (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
* (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
* (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
* A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, pages 18–19:[I]n either of theſe Ships, there ſhould be a Miſsion of three of the Fellowes, or Brethren of Salomons Houſe; [...]
* (obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
* A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
    Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.
* (Australia, becoming obsolete) An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
* (slang, drugs) A drug run.

#### Derived terms

* chef de mission
* diplomatic mission
* fire mission
* inner mission
* intermission
* intromission
* mission accomplished
* mission creep
* mission-critical
* Mission golden-eyed treefrog
* mission home
* mission impossible
* mission kill
* mission mix
* mission mixture
* Mission olive
* Mission Ridge
* mission school
* mission statement
* mission station
* on a mission
* permanent mission
* permission
* remission
* rescue mission
* side mission
* space mission
* suicide mission
* transmission

#### Related terms

* mess
* message
* messenger
* missile
* missionary
* missive
* admissible
* admission
* admit
* commission
* commit
* demiss
* demission
* demit
* emission
* emit
* intermission
* intermit
* manumission
* manumit
* omit
* permit
* premise
* pretermit
* promise
* remit
* submit
* surmise
* transmit

#### Translations

Arabic: مُهِمَّة f (muhimma)
Armenian: առաքելություն (hy) (aṙakʻelutʻyun)
Belarusian: мі́сія f (mísija), даручэ́нне n (daručénnje), зада́нне n (zadánnje), зада́ча (be) f (zadáča)
Bulgarian: ми́сия (bg) f (mísija), зада́ча (bg) f (zadáča)
Catalan: missió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 任務 / 任务 (zh) (rènwu), 使命 (zh) (shǐmìng)
Czech: poslání n, mise (cs) f
Dutch: missie (nl) f, opdracht (nl) f
Egyptian: (wpwt)
Esperanto: misio
Estonian: ülesanne (et)
Finnish: tehtävä (fi)
French: mission (fr) f
Georgian: დავალება (davaleba)
German: Auftrag (de) m
Greek: αποστολή (el) f (apostolí)
Ancient: πέμψις f (pémpsis), ἀποστολή f (apostolḗ)
Hebrew: מְשִׂימָה (he) f (mesimá)
Hungarian: küldetés (hu)
Icelandic: hlutverk n
Ido: misiono (io)
Indonesian: tugas (id), misi (id)
Italian: missione (it) f
Japanese: 任務 (ja) (にんむ, ninmu), 使命 (ja) (しめい, shimei)
Korean: 임무(任務) (ko) (immu), 사명(使命) (ko) (samyeong)
Latin: missio f, expedītiō f
Latvian: uzdevums m
Lithuanian: užduotis f
Macedonian: мисија (mk) f (misija), задача f (zadača)
Malay: misi (ms), hala tuju
Malayalam: ദൗത്യം (ml) (dautyaṁ)
Maori: mīhana, whakatakanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oppdrag n
Persian: مأموریت (fa) (ma'muriyat)
Polish: misja (pl) f, zadanie (pl) n
Portuguese: missão (pt) f
Romanian: misiune (ro) f, însărcinare (ro) f
Russian: ми́ссия (ru) f (míssija), поруче́ние (ru) n (poručénije), зада́ние (ru) n (zadánije), зада́ча (ru) f (zadáča)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мѝсија f
Roman: mìsija (sh) f
Slovak: misia f, poslanie n
Slovene: naloga f
Spanish: misión (es) f
Swedish: uppdrag (sv) n
Tagalog: misyon
Thai: ภารกิจ (th) (paa-rá-gìt)
Turkish: görev (tr)
Ukrainian: мі́сія (uk) f (mísija), дору́чення n (dorúčennja), припору́ка f (pryporúka), завда́ння (uk) n (zavdánnja), зада́ча f (zadáča)
Vietnamese: nhiệm vụ (vi) (任務)
Welsh: cyrch m :

### Verb

mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)
* (transitive) To send on a mission.
* (intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.

### Further reading

* “mission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mission”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “mission”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Ionisms

## Finnish
### Noun

mission
* genitive singular of missio

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mission f (plural missions)
* mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)
* mission (religious evangelism)

#### Derived terms

* mission spatiale
* missionnaire
* missionner

#### Related terms

* admission
* démission
* permission
* rémission
* mettre

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: misiune
* → Turkish: misyon

### Further reading

* “mission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* misions

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

### Noun

mission f (plural missions)
* (Jersey) mission

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* mession
* micion
* mision

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

### Noun

mission oblique singular, f (oblique plural missions, nominative singular mission, nominative plural missions)
* expense; cost; outlay

#### Descendants

* French: mission
* Norman: mission

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪˈɧuːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mission c
* (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
* (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism
    inre mission ― domestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)

#### Related terms

* missionär
* missionsfält
* missionsförbund