Missionee

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The person whom a missionary attempts to convert to a religion.

    "[…] any supposition that the construction was symmetrical, or that the discourse of the missionary and the missionee is evenly shared must surely be questioned."

Example

More examples

"[…] any supposition that the construction was symmetrical, or that the discourse of the missionary and the missionee is evenly shared must surely be questioned."

Etymology

From mission + -ee.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.