missionary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪ.ʃən.(ə)ɹɪ/
- Hyphenation: mis‧sion‧ary
missionary (countable and uncountable, plural missionaries)
- One who is sent on a mission.
- (religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).
A missionary was just trying to convert me to his religion.
- (derogatory) A religious messenger.
- (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
My boyfriend only cums during missionary.
- (uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
person traveling to spread a religion
- Albanian: misionar (sq) m
- Arabic: مُبَشِّر m (mubaššir), مُنَصِّر m (munaṣṣir)
- Egyptian Arabic: مبشر m (mubaššir)
- Armenian: քարոզիչ (hy) (kʻarozičʻ)
- Asturian: misioneru m
- Azerbaijani: missioner
- Belarusian: місіяне́р m (misijanjér), місіяне́рка f (misijanjérka)
- Bulgarian: мисионе́р m (misionér)
- Catalan: missioner (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: misionář (cs) m
- Danish: missionær c
- Dutch: (Roman Catholic) missionaris m, (Protestant in a non-Christian environment) zendeling m, (Protestant in a Christian environment) evangelist m
- Esperanto: misiisto
- Estonian: misjonär
- Finnish: lähetyssaarnaaja (fi)
- French: missionnaire (fr) m
- Galician: misioneiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მისიონერი (misioneri)
- German: Missionar (de) m, Missionarin (de) f
- Greek: ιεραπόστολος (el) m or f (ierapóstolos)
- Greenlandic: ajoqersuiartortitaq
- Hawaiian: mikanele
- Hungarian: hittérítő (hu), misszionárius (hu)
- Indonesian: misionaris (id)
- Italian: missionario (it) m, missionaria (it) f
- Japanese: 宣教師 (ja) (せんきょうし, senkyōshi)
- Kazakh: дінге үндеуші (dıñe ündeuşı), дін таратушы (dın taratuşy), миссионер (missioner)
- Korean: 선교사(宣敎師) (ko) (seon'gyosa)
- Latin: missiōnārius m
- Latvian: misionārs m
- Lithuanian: misionierius (lt) m
- Macedonian: мисионер m (misioner)
- Norman: missionnaithe m or f
- Norwegian: misjonær m
- Old English: ār m
- Persian: میسیونر (fa) (misioner)
- Plautdietsch: Missionoa m
- Polish: misjonarz (pl) m, misjonarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: missionário (pt) m, missionária f
- Romanian: misionar (ro) m, misionară (ro) f
- Russian: миссионе́р (ru) m (missionér), миссионе́рка (ru) f (missionérka)
- Scottish Gaelic: teachdaire m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: misionár m, misionárka f
- Slovene: misijonar (sl) m
- Spanish: misionero (es) m, misionera f, misionario (es)
- Swahili: mmisionari
- Swedish: missionär (sv)
- Tagalog: misyonero
- Turkish: misyoner (tr)
- Ukrainian: місіоне́р m (misionér), місіоне́рка f (misionérka)
- Urdu: مبلغ (muballiġ), مربّی (murabbī)
- Vietnamese: người truyền giáo (𠊛傳教), cha truyền đạo (𤕔傳道)
missionary (not comparable)
- Relating to a (religious) mission.
relating to a mission
- Bulgarian: мисионерски (misionerski)
- Chinese:
- Finnish: lähetys- (fi)
- German: missionarisch (de)
- Kazakh: миссионерлік (missionerlık)
- Polish: misyjny (pl), misjonarski (pl)
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- Missionary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia