missionary

English

Etymology

From mission +‎ -ary.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.ʃən.(ə)ɹɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: mis‧sion‧ary

Noun

missionary (countable and uncountable, plural missionaries)

1. One who is sent on a mission.
2. (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.

3. (derogatory) A religious messenger.
4. (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.

   My boyfriend only cums during missionary.

5. (uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.

Derived terms

• antimissionary
• missionaries and cannibals problem
• missionary bishop
• missionary linguist
• missionary-linguist
• missionary position
• missionary rector
• missionary zeal

 

Descendants

• → Maori: Mihinare
  • → English: Mihanere

Translations

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
• Basque: misiolari
• Belarusian: місіяне́р m (misijanjér), місіяне́рка f (misijanjérka)
• Bulgarian: мисионе́р m (misionér)
• Catalan: missioner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳教士／传教士 (cyun⁴ gaau³ si⁶), 宣教士 (syun¹ gaau³ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 傳教士／传教士 (zh) (chuánjiàoshì), 傳道者／传道者 (zh) (chuándàozhě), 宣教士 (xuānjiàoshì)

• 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:

  Cyrillic: мисионар m

  Roman: misionar (sh) m

• 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 position — see missionary position

Adjective

missionary (not comparable)

1. Relating to a (religious) mission.

Translations

relating to a mission

• Bulgarian: мисионерски (misionerski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳教的／传教的 (chuánjiào de)

• Finnish: lähetys- (fi)
• German: missionarisch (de)
• Kazakh: миссионерлік (missionerlık)
• Polish: misyjny (pl), misjonarski (pl)

See also

• missionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Missionary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia