preacher

[ pree-cher ]

/ ˈpri tʃər /

a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.

a person who preaches.

Origin of preacher

1175–1225; Middle English precho(u)r < Old French prech(e)or, earlier preëch(e)or < Late Latin praedicātor. See preach, -or²

According to a Yemeni intelligence source, Saïd met with the notorious U.S. preacher Anwar al Awlaki.

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Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.

Remembering ESPN’s Sly, Cocky, and Cool Anchor Stuart Scott |Stereo Williams |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
The best answer Sutton offers is a statement by the preacher John Roach Stratton back in 1918.

The Evangelical Apocalypse Is All Your Fault |Jay Michaelson |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
The preacher gave sheriff deputies permission to search his SUV but warned them “there was something bad” inside.

Exposed: The Gay-Bashing Pastor’s Same-Sex Assault |M.L. Nestel |December 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

The new copy-reader here mentioned was C.C. Foss, a cherubic little fellow who was also a Methodist preacher.

The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire |H.L. Mencken |October 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The man that don't need that has to be his own preacher here and sow and reap his own morality.

A Man for the Ages |Irving Bacheller
The preacher turned and looked at her, as if half doubtful of the sincerity of the question.

Into the Highways and Hedges |F. F. Montrsor (Frances Frederica)
But I reckon he was a preacher, all the same, every minute of his life.

The March Family Trilogy, Complete |William Dean Howells
Why was it not the one to which that preacher in the wilderness resorted?

The Gospel of St. John |Frederick Denison Maurice
The peasants advanced one by one and knelt down, presenting their guns to the preacher, who laid them upon the altar.

The Chouans |Honore de Balzac

preacher

/ (ˈpriːtʃə) /

a person who has the calling and function of preaching the Christian Gospel, esp a Protestant clergyman

a person who preaches

Preacher

/ (ˈpriːtʃə) /

the Preacher Bible the author of Ecclesiastes or the book of Ecclesiastes