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missionary

  • noun
  • mis·sion·ary
  • /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/

One who is sent on a mission.

Other meanings

  1. A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).

    “A missionary was just trying to convert me to his religion.”

  2. The missionary position for sexual intercourse.

    “My boyfriend only cums during missionary.”

Related words

  • missionarily
  • missionarying
  • missionaryism
  • missionaryize
  • missionarylike
  • missionaryship
  • nonmissionary
  • premissionary
  • unmissionary
  • antimissionary
  • missionary bishop
  • missionary linguist

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “missionary” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.