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FIFTH CRUSADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fifth Crusade mean? 

FIFTH CRUSADE (noun)
  The noun FIFTH CRUSADE has 1 sense:

1. a Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offeredplay

  Familiarity information: FIFTH CRUSADE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIFTH CRUSADE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

Crusade (any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims)


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