[{"word":"crusades","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered."},{"definition":"Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"a crusade against drug abuse"},{"definition":"A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A Portuguese coin; a crusado.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To go on a military crusade.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crusade","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crusades"]}]