You can give it back whenever you want to as I bought that book for missionary work.
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Missionary
//ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ//
Synonyms for "missionary" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (7)
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5 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 57 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- misionar noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Arabic
3 entries- مبشر noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- مُبَشِّر noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- مُنَصِّر noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Armenian
1 entries- քարոզիչ noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Asturian
1 entries- misioneru noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- missioner noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Basque
1 entries- misiolari noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Belarusian
2 entries- місіяне́р noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- місіяне́рка noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мисионерски adj (relating to a mission)
- мисионе́р noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Catalan
1 entries- missioner noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 傳教士 /传教士 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- 宣教士 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 傳教的 /传教的 adj (relating to a mission)
- 傳教士 /传教士 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- 傳道者 /传道者 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- 宣教士 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Czech
1 entries- misionář noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Danish
1 entries- missionær noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Dutch
3 entries- evangelist noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- missionaris noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- zendeling noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Esperanto
1 entries- misiisto noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Estonian
1 entries- misjonär noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Finnish
2 entries- lähetys adj (relating to a mission)
- lähetyssaarnaaja noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
French
1 entries- missionnaire noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Galician
1 entries- misioneiro noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Georgian
1 entries- მისიონერი noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
German
3 entries- missionarisch adj (relating to a mission)
- Missionar noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- Missionarin noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Greek
1 entries- ιεραπόστολος noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Greenlandic
1 entries- ajoqersuiartortitaq noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Hawaiian
1 entries- mikanele noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Hebrew
1 entries- מִיסְיוֹנֶר noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Hungarian
2 entries- hittérítő noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misszionárius noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Indonesian
1 entries- misionaris noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Italian
2 entries- missionaria noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- missionario noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Japanese
1 entries- 宣教師 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Kazakh
4 entries- миссионерлік adj (relating to a mission)
- дін таратушы noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- дінге үндеуші noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- миссионер noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Korean
1 entries- 선교사 noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Latin
1 entries- missiōnārius noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Latvian
1 entries- misionārs noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Lithuanian
1 entries- misionierius noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Macedonian
1 entries- мисионер noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Norman
1 entries- missionnaithe noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Norwegian
1 entries- misjonær noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Old English
1 entries- ār noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Persian
1 entries- میسیونر noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Missionoa noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Polish
4 entries- misjonarski adj (relating to a mission)
- misyjny adj (relating to a mission)
- misjonarka noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misjonarz noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Portuguese
2 entries- missionária noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- missionário noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Romanian
2 entries- misionar noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misionară noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Russian
2 entries- миссионе́р noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- миссионе́рка noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- teachdaire noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- misionar noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- мисионар noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Slovak
2 entries- misionár noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misionárka noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Slovene
1 entries- misijonar noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Spanish
3 entries- misionario noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misionera noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- misionero noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Swahili
1 entries- mmisionari noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Swedish
1 entries- missionär noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Tagalog
1 entries- misyonero noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Thai
2 entries- มิชชันนารี noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- หมอสอนศาสนา noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Turkish
1 entries- misyoner noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Ukrainian
2 entries- місіоне́р noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- місіоне́рка noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Urdu
2 entries- مبلغ noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- مربّی noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cha truyền đạo noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
- người truyền giáo noun (person traveling to spread a religion)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.
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From 1859, Protestant missionaries from America started to arrive, and the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches also became actively involved in missionary work.
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Despite 100 years of missionary effort, the number of native Esperanto speakers is still low enough that each one can be known by name.
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