Synonyms:
preacher, preacher_man, sermonizer, sermoniser
Meaning: someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
Usage examples
Can I be a preacher?
Auntie Bogart says I'm going to be a preacher.
To help his creed, the preacher resorts to fable.
We are not sure either of Jesus' words or of his character, intimates the Reverend preacher.
The result of all this for the preacher, however, was a certain prestige, and his humility took alarm.
"By the way, my dear," remarked Mrs. Ellis as they sat chatting at the tea-table after Walter had retired, "what has become of that preacher Goodman who preached for us once on trial?"
The preacher met them with an undaunted front and told them he must do his duty as it appeared to him; that he was amenable to law, but nothing else; he even spoke in condemnation of mobs.
But the preacher knew him and refused, saying that he was unworthy to do this, but the young man, who was no other than the Master himself, explained the situation and the preacher hesitated no longer.
You will hear sermons and read newspaper editorials about the "divorce evil," and you will find that to the preacher or editor this "evil" consists of the fact that more and more people are refusing to stay unhappily married.
"These hereditary enemies of the Truth... have even had the heart to degrade this first preacher of the Mountain, the purest hero of Liberty; for, unable to deny that he was earth's greatest man, they have made of him heaven's smallest god."--Heine: Reisebilder.