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PREACHER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

Synonyms:

preacher; preacher man; sermoniser; sermonizer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("preacher" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preacher"):

evangelist; gospeler; gospeller; revivalist (a preacher of the Christian gospel)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; John Bunyan (English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688))

John Chrysostom; St. John Chrysostom ((Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407))

Derivation:

preach (deliver a sermon)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was a sort of laugh, as she answered, 'A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign parts.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

How can two sermons a week, even supposing them worth hearing, supposing the preacher to have the sense to prefer Blair's to his own, do all that you speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation for the rest of the week?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)