English-Thai Dictionary

missionary

ADJ เกี่ยวกับค ณะ ผู้สอน ศาสนา  เกี่ยวกับ ผู้ เผยแพร่ ศาสนา  evangelical kiao-kab-ka-na-phu-son-sad-sa-na

 

missionary

N หมอสอนศาสนา  ผู้ เผยแพร่ ศาสนา  มิชชันนารี  apostle evangelist mor-son-sad-sa-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISSIONARY

n.One sent to propagate religion. Christian missionaries are called missionaries of the cross.

 

MISSIONARY

a.Pertaining to mission; as a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MISSIONARY

Mis "sion *ary, n.; pl. Missionaries. Etym: [Cf. F. missionnaire. See Mission, n.]

 

Defn: One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

 

MISSIONARY

MISSIONARY Mis "sion *a *ry, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

missionary

mis sion ar y |ˈmiSHəˌnerē ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri | ▶noun ( pl. missionaries ) a person sent on a religious mission, esp. one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. ▶adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of a missionary or a religious mission: missionary work | they have lost the missionary zeal they once had. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio (see mission ).

 

missionary position

mis sion ar y po si tion |ˈˌmɪʃəˌnɛri pəˈzɪʃən | ▶noun informal a position for sexual intercourse in which a couple lies face to face with the woman underneath the man. ORIGIN said to be so named because early missionaries advocated the position as “proper ” to primitive peoples, to whom the practice was unknown.

 

Missionary Ridge

Mis sion ary Ridge |ˈmiSHəˌnerē ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri rɪdʒ | a historic site southeast of Chattanooga in Tennessee, on the Georgia border, scene of a November 1863 Civil War battle that followed that at nearby Lookout Mountain.

 

Oxford Dictionary

missionary

mis ¦sion |ary |ˈmɪʃ (ə )n (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. missionaries ) a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. ▶adjective relating to or characteristic of a missionary or a religious mission: missionary work | our taxi driver shared a sense of missionary zeal with us. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio (see mission ).

 

missionary position

mis ¦sion |ary pos |ition ▶noun informal a position for sexual intercourse in which a couple lie face to face with the woman underneath the man. ORIGIN said to be so named because early missionaries advocated the position as ‘proper ’ to primitive peoples, to whom the practice was unknown.

 

Missionary Ridge

Mis sion ary Ridge |ˈmiSHəˌnerē ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri rɪdʒ | a historic site southeast of Chattanooga in Tennessee, on the Georgia border, scene of a November 1863 Civil War battle that followed that at nearby Lookout Mountain.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

missionary

missionary noun he was a missionary in Sierre Leone: evangelist, apostle, proselytizer, preacher, minister, priest; historical black robe.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

missionary

missionary noun he was a missionary in Sierre Leone: evangelist, apostle, proselytizer, preacher, televangelist, minister, priest; campaigner, crusader, champion, converter, promoter, advocate, proponent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

missionary

mis sion ar y /mɪ́ʃənèri |-ʃ (ə )n (ə )ri /→mission 名詞 複 -ies /-z /C 1 (外国に派遣される )宣教師 , 伝道師 .2 (主義 教義の )宣伝者 .3 (派遣される )使節 .形容詞 比較なし 〖名詞 の前で 〗1 布教 (活動 )の , 伝道の ; 宣教師 [伝道師 ]の .2 とても熱心な ▸ missionary zeal この上ない熱意 ～́ pos ì tion 〖通例the ～〗(性交の )正常位 .