mis·sion·ar·y
noun/ˈmɪʃənri/
/ˈmɪʃəneri/
(plural missionaries)
- a person who is sent to a foreign country to teach people about religion, especially Christianity
传教士 - Baptist missionaries
浸礼会传教士 - missionary work
传教士的工作 - (figurative) She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm).
她以极大的热忱谈论自己的新项目。 - He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa.
他在非洲做了 15 年的传教士。 - clergy sent as missionaries to Latin America
被派往拉丁美洲传教的神职人员
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- foreign
- pioneer
- evangelical
- …
- work as
- send (somebody as)
- work
- zeal
- as a missionary
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio, from mittere ‘send’. - Baptist missionaries