Missionary
noun
A person who is sent by a religious organization to teach and convert others to their religion.
The missionary traveled to Africa to share his religious beliefs with the local people.
Often appears as...
- christian missionary
- mormon missionary
adjective
Related to people who are sent by a religious organization to teach and convert others to their religion.
She supports a few missionary societies that do work in Asia.
Often appears as...
- missionary work
- missionary society
noun
Someone who is trying to convince others about their beliefs or aims, not necessarily connected to religion.
He is a missionary for alternative energy, advocating for its benefits whenever he can.
Often appears as...
- environmental missionary
- moral missionary
noun
A person who is sent by a religious organization to teach and convert others to their religion.
The missionary traveled to Africa to share his religious beliefs with the local people.
Often appears as...
- christian missionary
- mormon missionary
adjective
Related to people who are sent by a religious organization to teach and convert others to their religion.
She supports a few missionary societies that do work in Asia.
Often appears as...
- missionary work
- missionary society
noun
Someone who is trying to convince others about their beliefs or aims, not necessarily connected to religion.
He is a missionary for alternative energy, advocating for its benefits whenever he can.
Often appears as...
- environmental missionary
- moral missionary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Typically used when someone is part of an organized religion focused on spreading their faith.
The missionary set up a school to teach the local children.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Expansion
Missionaries have been crucial in spreading religions around the world throughout history.
Christian missionaries played a role in the colonization of the Americas.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Understand that the term might have negative connotations in post-colonial contexts.
Some communities view missionaries with suspicion due to past experiences.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Typically used when someone is part of an organized religion focused on spreading their faith.
The missionary set up a school to teach the local children.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Expansion
Missionaries have been crucial in spreading religions around the world throughout history.
Christian missionaries played a role in the colonization of the Americas.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Understand that the term might have negative connotations in post-colonial contexts.
Some communities view missionaries with suspicion due to past experiences.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Typically used when someone is part of an organized religion focused on spreading their faith.
The missionary set up a school to teach the local children.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Expansion
Missionaries have been crucial in spreading religions around the world throughout history.
Christian missionaries played a role in the colonization of the Americas.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Understand that the term might have negative connotations in post-colonial contexts.
Some communities view missionaries with suspicion due to past experiences.
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We Are What We Eat:...
only relying on hunting and gathering. Now, about 200 years ago missionaries came there and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world.
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Cradle of Gold: The...
able to make a life for himself that was very different from the missionary life that his parents imagined for him he realized that he was very good at teaching his fellow students he was extremely poor they were extremely wealthy he liked to read books
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Nemonte Nenquimo: The...
The forest is our home, the forest gives us life, food, nourishment, water, spiritual connection. But the arrival of roads, the arrival of colonization, the arrival of evangelical missionaries, the arrival of oil companies has destroyed our forest.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
missionaries that went in the they stopped dancing and they stopped relating to their natural world in the way that they always had in the way that they would translate it and one of the big things was dance they didn't stop
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A message of peace, hope...
was born in Pakistan I want you know that I'm proud of it so I know so therefore you've seen you've seen you've obviously seen from from another side yeah I mean we were talking about you know my father was a missionary in
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Where did Russia come...
as well as continued trade along the Volga route, the relationship between the two civilizations deepened. Byzantine missionaries created an alphabet for Slavic languages based on a modified Greek script
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Bringing Life-Changing...
my first visitation that one was with one great missionary we travel to an island there was a small medical clinic and at the end of the day he said did you see how people are suffering here
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Lale Labuko: Rescuing...
the missionaries come to this village to my village and they asked about education and everyone said what is education means you know and the missionaries have to explain them
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Kees Moeliker: How a...
These are cane toads in Australia. This is roadkill. Please note that this is necrophilia. It's the position. The missionary position is very rare in the animal kingdom.
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Christianity in China PIPE...
cannonball British and American missionaries used the yangtze to access the interior of the country
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We Are What We Eat:...
only relying on hunting and gathering. Now, about 200 years ago missionaries came there and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world.
Video examples
Cradle of Gold: The...
able to make a life for himself that was very different from the missionary life that his parents imagined for him he realized that he was very good at teaching his fellow students he was extremely poor they were extremely wealthy he liked to read books
Video examples
Nemonte Nenquimo: The...
The forest is our home, the forest gives us life, food, nourishment, water, spiritual connection. But the arrival of roads, the arrival of colonization, the arrival of evangelical missionaries, the arrival of oil companies has destroyed our forest.
Video examples
Storytellers Summit Day...
missionaries that went in the they stopped dancing and they stopped relating to their natural world in the way that they always had in the way that they would translate it and one of the big things was dance they didn't stop
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A message of peace, hope...
was born in Pakistan I want you know that I'm proud of it so I know so therefore you've seen you've seen you've obviously seen from from another side yeah I mean we were talking about you know my father was a missionary in
Video examples
Where did Russia come...
as well as continued trade along the Volga route, the relationship between the two civilizations deepened. Byzantine missionaries created an alphabet for Slavic languages based on a modified Greek script
Video examples
Bringing Life-Changing...
my first visitation that one was with one great missionary we travel to an island there was a small medical clinic and at the end of the day he said did you see how people are suffering here
Video examples
Lale Labuko: Rescuing...
the missionaries come to this village to my village and they asked about education and everyone said what is education means you know and the missionaries have to explain them
Video examples
Kees Moeliker: How a...
These are cane toads in Australia. This is roadkill. Please note that this is necrophilia. It's the position. The missionary position is very rare in the animal kingdom.
Video examples
Christianity in China PIPE...
cannonball British and American missionaries used the yangtze to access the interior of the country
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Ray Comfort
New Zealander Clergyman
In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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Ian Mckellen
English Actor
I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.
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Paul Washer
American Clergyman
Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.
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Walter Bagehot
English Author
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Jayne Meadows
American Actress
I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
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Russell M. Nelson
American Clergyman
Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.
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Mack Wilberg
American Composer
Even missionaries get discouraged at times.
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Ray Comfort
New Zealander Clergyman
In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.
Quote examples
Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Quote examples
Ian Mckellen
English Actor
I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Quote examples
Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.
Quote examples
Paul Washer
American Clergyman
Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.
Quote examples
Walter Bagehot
English Author
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Quote examples
Jayne Meadows
American Actress
I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
Quote examples
Russell M. Nelson
American Clergyman
Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.
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Mack Wilberg
American Composer
Even missionaries get discouraged at times.
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