preacher
/ˈpriːtʃə
/noun
A person who preaches, especially a minister of religion.Pray regularly from the pulpit for God to raise up preachers and missionary church planters....
- Neither preachers nor church members should be ashamed of God's sovereign purpose.
- There have been preachers and religious leaders with that kind of natural charisma.
Synonyms
minister (of religion), parson, clergyman, clergywoman, member of the clergy, priest, man/woman of the cloth, man/woman of God, cleric, churchman, churchwoman, evangelist, apostle, missionary, revivalist, evangelical, gospeller, sermonizer, spreader of the faith, crusader, proselytizer, moralizer;
Scottish kirkman;
North American televangelist, dominie
informal reverend, padre, Holy Joe, sky pilot, hot gospeller
North American informal preacher man, preach
Australian informal josser
rare predicant, pulpiteer, homilist
Origin
Middle English: from Old French precheor, from ecclesiastical Latin praedicator, from the verb praedicare (see preach).
Rhymes
- ridership
- rider stone
- Ride, Sally
- ride-share
- ride-sharing
- ride shotgun
- ride skimmington
- ride someone down
- ride something out
- ride the clutch
- ride the pine (or bench)
- ride the rods (or rails)
- ride to hounds
- ride up
- rideway
- ridge
- ridgeback
- ridge-band
- ridge barrow
- ridge bone
- ridge chain
- ridge crest
- ridge cucumber
- ridge-drill
- ridge form