- a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work: There are opportunities for student missionaries living abroad to work with people in need of aid, participate in building projects, and share the Gospel.
- a person strongly in favor of a program, set of principles, etc., who attempts to persuade or convert others.
- a person who is sent on a mission.
- missionary position.
- pertaining to or connected with religious missions.
- engaged in such a mission or devoted to work connected with missions.
- reflecting or prompted by the desire to persuade or convert others: the missionary efforts of political fanatics.
- characteristic of a missionary: missionary zeal.
- relating to or noting the missionary position: Then it was up to the bedroom for some good, old-fashioned missionary sex.
- a member of a religious mission
- of or relating to missionaries
- resulting from a desire to convert people to one's own beliefs
