missionary

noun
🔊/ˈmɪʃənri/
🔊/ˈmɪʃəneri/
(plural missionaries)
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  1. a person who is sent to a foreign country to teach people about religion, especially Christianity传教士
    • Baptist missionaries浸礼会传教士
    • missionary work传教士的工作
    • (figurative) She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm).她以极大的热忱谈论自己的新项目。🔊🔊
    • He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa.他在非洲做了 15 年的传教士。
    • clergy sent as missionaries to Latin America被派往拉丁美洲传教的神职人员
    Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Jobsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • foreign
    • pioneer
    • evangelical
    verb + missionary
    • work as
    • send (somebody as)
    missionary + noun
    • work
    • zeal
    preposition
    • as a missionary
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio, from mittere ‘send’.