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 minister rabbi priest lecturer evangelist missionary pastor clergyman cleric churchman revivalist sermoniser preacher man archbishop
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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 preacher curl john the preacher islamic preacher television preacher the preacher of wisdom

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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