Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun third_crusade

1 sense of third crusade

Sense 1
Third Crusade -- (a Crusade from 1189 to 1192 led by Richard I and the king of France that failed because an army torn by dissensions and fighting on foreign soil could not succeed against forces united by religious zeal)
       INSTANCE OF=> 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)