missionary
US: /ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
UK: /mˈɪʃənəɹi/
UK: /mˈɪʃənəɹi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
missionary /'miʃnəri/ (missioner) /'miʃnə/
- tính từ
- (thuộc) hội truyền giáo; có tính chất truyền giáo
- (thuộc) hội truyền giáo; có tính chất truyền giáo
- danh từ
- người truyền giáo
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
(plural missionaries) a person who is sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity: Baptist missionaries + missionary work + (figurative) She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm).
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
evangelist, preacher, minister, proselytizer:
During the 19th century, many missionaries were dispatched to spread the faith in Africa.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
foreign | pioneer | evangelical, medical | Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Jesuit, Protestant
VERB + MISSIONARY
work as | send (sb as)
sending clergy as missionaries to Latin America
| pray for
MISSIONARY + NOUN
work | zeal
He argued the case for reorganization with missionary zeal.
PREP.
as a ~
He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa.
Concise English dictionary
missionaries
+someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
+someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
adj.
+relating to or connected to a religious mission
