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, Jobsc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- foreign
- pioneer
- evangelical
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verb + missionary- work as
- send (somebody as)
missionary + nounprepositionSee full entry Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio, from mittere ‘send’.