Missionary

Mis′sion-ary

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Missionaries

(#)

.

[Cf. F.

missionnaire

. See

Mission

,

n

.]

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.

Swift.

Missionary apostolic

,

a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

Mis′sion-a-ry

,

Adj.

Of or pertaining to missions;

as, a

missionary

meeting; a

missionary

fund.

Missionary

MIS'SIONARY

,

Noun.

One sent to propagate religion. Christian missionaries are called missionaries of the cross.

MIS'SIONARY

,

Adj.

Pertaining to mission; as a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

missionary

English

Noun

missionary ‎(plural missionaries)

One who is sent on a mission.
A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
A missionary was just trying to convert me to his religion.
(pejorative) A religious messenger.
(uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.

Translations

person traveling to spread a religion

Albanian: misionar (sq) m
Arabic: مُبَشِّر m ‎(mubaššir)
Armenian: քարոզիչ (hy) ‎(kʿarozičʿ)
Asturian: misioneru m
Azeri: missioner
Belarusian: місіяне́р m ‎(misijanjér), місіяне́рка f ‎(misijanjérka)
Bulgarian: мисионе́р m ‎(misionér)
Catalan: missioner m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳教士 (zh), 传教士 (zh) ‎(chuánjiàoshì), 傳道者 (zh), 传道者 (zh) ‎(chuándàozhě)
Czech: misionář (cs) m
Danish: missionær c
Dutch: (Catholic) missionaris m, (Protestant) zendeling m
Esperanto: misiisto
Estonian: misjonär
Finnish: lähetyssaarnaaja (fi)
French: missionnaire (fr) m
Galician: misioneiro m
Georgian: მისიონერი ‎(misioneri)
German: Missionar (de) m
Greek: ιεραπόστολος (el) m, f ‎(ierapóstolos)
Hawaiian: mikanele
Hungarian: hittérítő (hu), misszionárius (hu)
Italian: missionario (it) m
Japanese: 宣教師 ‎(せんきょうし, senkyōshi)

Norman: missionnaithe m, f
Korean: 선교사 (ko) ‎(seon-gyosa) (宣敎師)
Latin: missiōnārius m
Latvian: misionārs m
Lithuanian: misionierius (lt) m
Macedonian: мисионер m ‎(misioner)
Norwegian: misjonær m
Persian: میسیونر (fa) ‎(misioner)
Polish: misjonarz (pl) m, misjonarka f
Portuguese: missionário (pt) m
Romanian: misionar (ro) m
Russian: миссионе́р (ru) m ‎(missionér), миссионе́рка (ru) f ‎(missionérka)
Scottish Gaelic: teachdaire m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: мисионар m

Roman: misionar (sh) m
Slovak: misionár m
Slovene: misijonar (sl) m
Spanish: misionero (es) m, misionera f, misionario (es)
Swahili: mmisionari
Swedish: missionär (sv)
Tagalog: misyonero
Turkish: misyoner (tr)
Ukrainian: місіоне́р m ‎(misionér), місіоне́рка f ‎(misionérka)
Vietnamese: người truyền giáo

position for sexual intercourse

Finnish: lähetyssaarnaaja (fi)
French: missionnaire (fr) m

German: Missionarsstellung (de) f
Turkish: misyoner pozisyonu

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Webster 1913 Edition

Missionary

Mis′sion-ary

Mis′sion-a-ry

Webster 1828 Edition

Missionary

MIS'SIONARY

MIS'SIONARY

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