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

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. […], volumes (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) (kʿarozičʿ)
• 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)
• 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
• 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