Definition of Foreign mission

1. Noun. An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work.

Exact synonyms: Mission, Missionary Post, Missionary Station
Generic synonyms: Ngo, Nongovernmental Organization
Derivative terms: Missioner

2. Noun. A permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister.
Exact synonyms: Legation
Generic synonyms: Diplomatic Mission
Member holonyms: Legate, Official Emissary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreign Mission

foreign debts
foreign direct investment
foreign draft
foreign exchange
foreign exchange market
foreign exchange markets
foreign exchanges
foreign key
foreign keys
foreign language
foreign languages
foreign legion
foreign medical graduates
foreign minister
foreign ministers
foreign mission (current term)
foreign office
foreign policies
foreign policy
foreign professional personnel
foreign protein
foreign protein therapy
foreign serum
foreign terrorist organization
foreign tongue
foreign tongues
foreigner
foreigners
foreignise
foreignism

Literary usage of Foreign mission

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The Convention has its domestic and foreign mission boards and has engaged zealously and successfully in every line of denominational work. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"From the circuit decree certain heirs at law of testator and the legatees Furman University, Southern Baptist Seminary, and foreign mission Board at ..."

3. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands by Hiram Bingham (1849)
"Origin of the Mission—foreign mission school—Death of the first Convert—Ordination of Missionaries—Appointment of assistant Missionaries—Mission Church ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"In 1918 the first band of erected 1702; reestablished 1840; residence, Yun- missionaries from the foreign mission Society of nan; vicar apostolic, ..."

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