preacher

See also: Preacher

English

Etymology

From Middle English precher, prechere; partly equivalent to preach +‎ -er, and partly continuing Middle English prechour, prechiour, from Old French preecheor (French prêcheur), from Latin praedicator (“public praiser, proclaimer”). See preach.

Displaced native Old English bydel.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹit͡ʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːt͡ʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: preach‧er

Noun

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Wikipedia

preacher (plural preachers)

1. Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 10, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

     The born preacher we feel instinctively to be our foe. He may do some good to the wretches that have been struck down and lie gasping on the battlefield: he rouses antagonism in the strong.

Hyponyms

• evangelist
• proselytizer

Derived terms

• lay preacher
• local preacher
• preacher bench
• preacher bird
• preacher curl
• preacheress

Translations

one who preaches

Afrikaans: predikant (af) Albanian: predikues (sq) Arabic: وَاعِظ (wāʕiẓ) Armenian: քարոզիչ (hy) (kʻarozičʻ) Azerbaijani: vaiz, xətib Basque: sermolari (eu) Belarusian: прапаве́днік m (prapavjédnik), каза́льнік m (kazálʹnik), каза́ннік m (kazánnik) Bulgarian: пропове́дник (bg) m (propovédnik) Catalan: predicador (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏣᏙᎲᏍᎩ (alitsadohvsgi) Chickasaw: aba' anompa ishtanompoli' Chinese: Cantonese: 傳教士 / 传教士 (cyun4 gaau3 si6) Mandarin: 傳教士 / 传教士 (zh) (chuánjiàoshì) Czech: kazatel (cs) m Danish: prædikant m Dutch: prediker (nl) m, predikant (nl) m Esperanto: predikisto Estonian: jutlustaja Faroese: prædikari m, prædikumaður m Finnish: saarnaaja (fi) French: prédicateur (fr), prêcheur (fr) m Georgian: მქადაგებელი (mkadagebeli) German: Prediger (de) m Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 m (mērjands) Greek: ιεροκήρυκας (el) m (ierokírykas) Hindi: उपदेशक (hi) m (updeśak) Hungarian: prédikátor (hu) Hutterisch: Prediger, Prediger Icelandic: prédikari m Ido: predikisto (io) Interlingua: predicator Irish: seanmóirí m Italian: predicatore (it) Japanese: 説教者 (せっきょうしゃ, sekkyōsha) Kazakh: уағызшы (uağyzşy) Khiamniungan Naga: āchìm Korean: 설교자 (seolgyoja) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: waiz (ku) m or f Kyrgyz: үгүттөөчү (ky) (ügüttööcü) Latin: praedicator Latvian: sludinātājs m Lithuanian: pamokslininkas m Macedonian: проповедник m (propovednik) Maltese: please add this translation if you can Manx: preaçhoor m, sharmaneagh m Maori: kaikauhau, kaikauwhau Ngazidja Comorian: hatwibu Norman: prêcheux m, prédicateu m Norwegian: predikant Old English: bydel m Pashto: واعظ m (wā'éz) Persian: واعظ (fa) (vâ'ez) Plautdietsch: Prädja m Polish: kaznodzieja (pl) m Portuguese: pregador (pt) Romani: Kalo Finnish Romani: deevelesko laavesko rakkiboskero m, deevelesko laavesko rakkiboskeri f Romanian: predicator (ro) Russian: пропове́дник (ru) m (propovédnik) Scottish Gaelic: searmonaiche m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: проповѐднӣк m, проповјѐднӣк m Roman: propovèdnīk m, propovjèdnīk (sh) m Slovak: kazateľ m Slovene: pridigar (sl) m Spanish: predicador (es) Swahili: mhubiri (sw) Swedish: predikant (sv) Tagalog: predikador Tajik: воиз (voyiz) Turkish: vaiz (tr) Ukrainian: пропові́дник m (propovídnyk) Urdu: واعظ m (vā'iz) Uyghur: ۋائىز (wa'iz) Uzbek: voiz (uz) Vietnamese: người thuyết giáo Walloon: pretcheu (wa) m Welsh: pregethwr (cy) m, pregethydd m