Word.ws English Dictionary

crusado

crusado noun: a crusader. Also the obsolete spelling of cruzado.

Noun

crusado (plural crusados or crusadoes)

  1. (archaic) A crusader.
    • So you agree with me, and don't think that the crusado from Russia will recover the Holy Land!1770 February 27, Horace Walpole, Letters of Horace Walpole
    • No crusado ever returned with more humility.1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II (of 2)
  2. (archaic) A crusade.
    • I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species.1823, Charles Lamb, “A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2

Also used as

crusado is also the obsolete spelling of cruzado.

Forms of crusado

pluralcrusados
pluralcrusadoes

Origin of crusado

Partially borrowed from Spanish cruzado as well as Portuguese cruzado.

Questions about crusado

What does crusado mean?
Crusado means a crusader.
What part of speech is crusado?
Crusado is a noun.
What is the plural of crusado?
The plural of crusado is crusados.

Words near crusado in the dictionary

  1. crusades
  2. crusading
  3. crusadingly
  4. crusadism
  5. crusadist
  6. crusado
  7. crusadoes
  8. crusados
  9. Crusan
  10. Crusans
  11. cruse

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crusado (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crusado.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crusado. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.