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Definition of Preacher
1. Noun. Someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel.
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
Specialized synonyms: Evangelist, Gospeler, Gospeller, Revivalist
Specialized synonyms: Bunyan, John Bunyan, John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom
Derivative terms: Preach, Sermonise, Sermonize
Definition of Preacher
1. n. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
Definition of Preacher
1. Proper noun. Alternative name for Ecclesiastes, the twenty-first book of the Old Testament. ¹
2. Proper noun. A nickname. ¹
3. Proper noun. (rare) (English male given name). ¹
4. Proper noun. (rare) (surname from=Middle English) ¹
5. Noun. Someone who preaches the gospel; a clergyman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preacher
1. one that preaches [n -S] - See also: preaches
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preacher
Literary usage of Preacher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"To make a great preacher, two things are necessary, the love of truth and the
love of ... A true American like Webster, a great preacher, a great leader, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Of Lutherans outside of Germany mention may be made of AF Huhn, preacher at ...
The Württemberg Church produced Wilhelm Hoffmann (qv), a preacher whose ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Consequently a special position as preacher was mads for Geiler, and he filled
this appointment with apostolic courage and intense zeal for souls for over ..."
4. Utopia by Thomas More (1869)
"... ye and the preacher alfo yf he be an offender, But the preacher can not correct
the Kynge if ... and doo Therefore let ye preacher «•Petr- i•a- teach, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"Several more listeners joined the little crowd round the preacher. A vendor of
daffodils leant against a lamp-post, setting her basket down on the wet ..."
6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"[2] Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity, [j]
What profit ... [12] I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem, ..."