mission: meaning and definitions

A body of persons sent to conduct negotiations or establish relations with a foreign country.

The business with which such a body of persons is charged.

A permanent diplomatic office abroad.

A body of experts or dignitaries sent to a foreign country.

A body of persons sent to a foreign land by a religious organization, especially a Christian organization, to spread its faith or provide educational, medical, and other assistance.

A mission established abroad.

The district assigned to a mission worker.

A building or compound housing a mission.

An organization for carrying on missionary work in a territory.

Missionary duty or work.

A Christian church or congregation with no cleric of its own that depends for support on a larger religious organization.

A series of special Christian services for purposes of proselytizing.

A welfare or educational organization established for the needy people of a district.

A special assignment given to a person or group: an agent on a secret mission.

A combat operation assigned to a person or military unit.

An aerospace operation intended to carry out specific program objectives: a mission to Mars.

An inner calling to pursue an activity or perform a service; a vocation.

To send on a mission.

To organize or establish a religious mission among or in.

Of or relating to a mission.

Of or relating to a style of architecture or furniture used in the early Spanish missions of California.

Of, relating to, or having the distinctive qualities of an early 20th-century style of plain, heavy, dark-stained wood furniture.