missionary
noun /ˈmɪʃənri/
/ˈmɪʃəneri/
(plural missionaries)
- a person who is sent to a foreign country to teach people about religion, especially Christianity
- Baptist missionaries
- missionary work
- (figurative) She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm).
- He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa.
- clergy sent as missionaries to Latin America
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- foreign
- pioneer
- evangelical
- …
- work as
- send (somebody as)
- work
- zeal
- as a missionary
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio, from mittere ‘send’.