Noun

missions

1. Plural form of mission.

Verb

missions

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mission.

French

Noun

missions

1. Plural form of mission.

Verb

missions

1. First-person plural subjunctive imperfect form of mettre.

A mission, from the Latin missum (English: sent), is a specific task, often religious, which a person or group has been charged with or adopts as their main purpose. It can also mean a school or other institution founded for religious education and/or evangelization.

Religion

• Mission (Christian), a Christian missionary movement or post
  • Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
• List of Spanish missions, various missions established by the Spanish in the New World (modern Latin America, mostly) both to spread Christianity and to oversee colonization
• Bolivarian Missions, a series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela
• Mission (LDS Church), an administrative area, often based on geographic regions, of proselytizing or service assignments by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Missionary (LDS Church)
  • Mission president, a priesthood leadership position LDS Church
• The Canadian residential school system for aboriginal children; individual schools were often known as "the Mission", for example, the namesake of Mission, British Columbia