missionarynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmɪʃ.ən.ri/us/ˈmɪʃ.er.i/a person who has been sent to a foreign country to teach their religion to the people who live there:
He did missionary work for the Presbyterian Church in Alaska.
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- animism
- Baptist
- born-again
- Calvinist
- get religion idiom
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- puritan
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
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