apostle
noun /əˈpɒsl/
/əˈpɑːsl/
- Apostleany one of the twelve men that Christ chose to tell people about him and his teachings
- apostle (of something) (formal) a person who strongly believes in a policy or an idea and tries to make other people believe in it
- an apostle of free enterprise
Word OriginOld English apostol, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apostolos ‘messenger’, from apostellein ‘send forth’.