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1. (n.) preacher
a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
2. preacher
a person who preaches.
Etymology: (1175–1225; ME precho(u)r < OF prech(e)or, earlier preëch(e)or < LL praedicātor. See preach , -or2)
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| Definition of 'preacher' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser
someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
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1. (noun) preacher
a minister or priest
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| Definition of 'preacher' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) preacher
one who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects
2. (noun) preacher
one who inculcates anything with earnestness
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| Definitions of 'preacher' |
The Roycroft Dictionary |
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preacher
1. Mendicancy in a celluloid collar.
2. A man who advises others concerning things about which he knows nothing.
3. Any man who lives on six hundred dollars a year and only works orally.
4. (Now obsolete) One who makes pastoral calls, frightens the young, astonishes the old, bothers the busy, and serves disappointed females as vicarious lover, father, friend, and personal representative of Deity.
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Sense: to advise
He preaches caution.
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 Afrikaans: predikant |
 Arabic: واعِظ |
 Bulgarian: проповедник |
 Brazilian: pregador |
 Czech: kazatel, -ka |
 German: der/die Prediger(in) |
 Danish: prædikant |
 Greek: ιεροκήρυκας |
 Spanish: predicador; pastor |
 Estonian: jutlustaja |
 Farsi: واعظ |
 Finnish: saarnaaja |
 French: prédicateur/-trice |
 Hebrew: מְטִיף |
 Hindi: उपदेश या प्रवचनकर्ता |
 Croatian: propovjednik, svečenik |
 Hungarian: igehirdető |
 Indonesian: dai, juru dakwah |
 Icelandic: predikari |
 Italian: predicatore, predicatrice |
 Japanese: 説教者 |
 Korean: 설교자 |
 Lithuanian: pamokslininkas |
 Latvian: sprediķotājs; sludinātājs |
 Malay: pengkhutbah |
 Dutch: prediker |
 Norwegian: prest, predikant |
 Polish: kaznodzieja |
 Persian: واعظ |
 Pashto: واعظ |
 Portuguese: pregador |
 Romanian: predicator |
 Russian: проповедник |
 Slovak: kazateľ, -ka |
 Slovenian: pridigar |
 Serbian: sveštenik |
 Swedish: predikant |
 Thai: นักเทศน์ |
 Turkish: vaiz |
 Taiwanese: 傳道士 |
 Ukrainian: проповідник |
 Urdu: مبلغ |
 Vietnamese: người thuyết giáo |
 Chinese: 传道士 |
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