sermon

English

Etymology

Latin sermō.

Pronunciation

Noun

sermon (plural sermons)

religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter
a lengthy speech of reproval

Translations

religious discourse

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 講道 (cmn), 讲道 (cmn) (jiǎngdào), 布道 (cmn) (bùdào), 說教 (cmn), 说教 (cmn) (shuōjiào)
Czech: kázání (cs) n
Dutch: preek (nl) c
Finnish: saarna (fi)
French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m
German: Predigt (de) f
Icelandic: predikun (is) f
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

Japanese: 説教 (ja) (せっきょう, sekkyō)
Latvian: sprediķis (lv) m
Malay: khutbah (ms)
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: موعظه (fa) (mow'eze), خطابه (fa) (xetâbe), وعظ (fa) (va'z)
Polish: kazanie (pl) n
Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
Russian: проповедь (ru) (própovedʹ) f
Scottish Gaelic: searmon (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian: проповед (sh) f, propoved (sh) f, проповијед (sh) f, propovijed (sh) f
Spanish: sermón (es)
Swedish: predikan (sv) c, betraktelse (sv) c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

speech of reproval

Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 說教 (cmn), 说教 (cmn) (shuōjiào)
Finnish: saarna (fi)
French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m

German: Predigt (de) f, Moralpredigt (de) f, Strafpredigt (de) f
Polish: kazanie (pl) n
Russian: поучение (ru) (poučénije) n, нотация (ru) (notácija) f, проповедь (ru) (própovedʹ) f, нравоучение (ru) (nravoučénije) n
Swedish: förmaning (sv) c, straffpredikan (sv) c, moralpredikan (sv) c

Verb

sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)

(poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
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(poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.