preacher

preach·er  (prchr)

n.

1. One who preaches, especially one who publicly proclaims the gospel for an occupation.

2. Alaska A fallen tree or log submerged in a river and creating a hazard for boats.

Regional Note: River navigation in America has its own lexicon, including words for hazards encountered in riverboat travel. Large uprooted trees that had drifted down the river and become stuck in the riverbed were sometimes known by their peculiar and dangerous characteristics. John McPhee writes for the New Yorker: "One kind . . . known as a sawyer, sawed up and down with the vagaries of the current . . . In the Yukon River, such logseternally bowingare known as preachers. In the Mississippi . . . they were all snags."

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preacher [ˈpriːtʃə]

n

1. (Christianity / Protestantism) a person who has the calling and function of preaching the Christian Gospel, esp a Protestant clergyman

2. a person who preaches

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Preacher [ˈpriːtʃə]

n

(Christian Religious Writings / Bible)

the Bible the author of Ecclesiastes or the book of Ecclesiastes

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

preacher - someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church evangelist, gospeler, gospeller, revivalist - a preacher of the Christian gospel

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preacher

noun clergyman, minister, parson, missionary, evangelist, revivalist a self-educated Methodist lay preacher

Translations

preacher [ˈpriːtʃəʳ] N [of sermon] → predicador(a) m/f (US) (= minister) → pastor(a) m/f

preacher [ˈpriːtʃə^r] n

(= giver of sermon) → prédicateur m

(US) (= clergyman) → pasteur m

preacher

n → Prediger(in) m(f); (fig: = moralizer) → Moralprediger(in) m(f); all these preachers of détente → alle diese Entspannungsprediger

preacher [ˈpriːtʃəʳ] n (of sermon) → predicatore m (Am) (minister) → pastore m