preacher

Speech parts

1. preacher - Noun

2. Preacher - Proper noun

Meaning

One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.

One who inculcates anything with earnestness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sermonizer sermoniser preacher man minister archbishop rabbi apostle shepherd Lama reverend bishop deacon abbot imam padre

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Antonyms

priestess mother superior layman abbess audience sister

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Hypernyms

reverend clergyman man of the cloth

Hyponyms

evangelist revivalist gospeler gospeller

Phrases with the word

the preacher television preacher the preacher of wisdom john the preacher a preacher islamic preacher

Examples

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again. Colum McCann

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. George Whitefield

Every one is a preacher under the gallows. Dutch Proverb

It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch. Ecuadoran Proverb

Time is the best preacher. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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