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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 offered
Familiarity information: FIFTH CRUSADE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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