• Bulgarian: мисия
• Croatian: misija
• Czech: poslání, mise
• Dutch: missie
• Esperanto: misio
• Finnish: tehtävä
• French: mission
• Hungarian: küldetés
• Italian: missione
• Japanese: 任務
• Polish: misja
• Russian: миссия (míssija)
• Slovene: naloga
• Spanish: misión

• Croatian: misija
• Dutch: missie, zending
• Finnish: missio
• French: mission
• Japanese: 伝道
• Korean: 사명
• Polish: misja
• Slovene: misijon
• Spanish: misión

Verb

1. To send to a mission.

Finnish

Noun

mission

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. See also missionary, a related word in a religious context.

The mission of an organization is often stated explicitly in a mission statement.

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
• Most Canadian residential schools for aboriginal children were known as "the Mission"; one such is the namesake of Mission, British Columbia, another of Okanagan Mission in Kelowna, British Columbia

Politics and government

• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space.
  • List of human spaceflights, a list of manned space missions.
• Combat mission, a military action.

Other

• Mission statement, a brief statement of the purpose of an organization
• Mission (slang), a slang term often used to describe a task or objective of which is considered difficult by the user

Mission may also refer to:

Geography

In the United States:

• Mission District, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood of San Francisco.
  • Mission High School (San Francisco, California), a high school there.
• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas
• Mission Ridge Ski Area, Washington

In Canada:

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality in British Columbia
• Mission, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
• Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood of Kelowna BC, is locally known as "the Mission"

Non-English-language equivalents:

In Argentina

• Misiones Province

In Brazil:

• Missões, Brazil, a region of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Padre Roque Gonzales.
  • São Miguel das Missões, one of the best preserved of the old colonial missions.
  • Guarani das Missões
  • São Paulo das Missões
  • Campina das Missões

In Paraguay

• Misiones Department

See also:

• La Misión

Other uses

• Mission, the previous name of the music group currently known as "Crown City Rockers."
• Mission Vao, a character in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape.
• Mission bottle, a bottle in a pharmacy for an oral liquid drug given to a patient (as opposed to a stock bottle, which usually contains a bulk amount of liquid and is not to be given to patients).
• Mission British manufacturer of loudspeakers now owned by IAG
• Mission (hockey), an ice and roller hockey skates and equipment manufacturer
• Captain Mission, an 18th century pirate spaduti and captain of The Republic of the Sea who founded a short-lived utopian society.

See also

• Quest

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