Etymology
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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
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preacher (plural preachers)
- Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman.
- Hypernym: cleric
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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one who preaches
- Afrikaans: predikant (af)
- Albanian: predikues (sq)
- Arabic: وَاعِظ (wāʕiẓ)
- Armenian: քարոզիչ (hy) (kʻarozičʻ)
- 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
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