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English
Etymology
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
Noun
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
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Derived terms
Translations
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 (es)
- 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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