preacher

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

British Dictionary definitions for preacher (1 of 2)

preacher

/ (ˈpriːtʃə) /

noun

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

a person who preaches

British Dictionary definitions for preacher (2 of 2)

Preacher

/ (ˈpriːtʃə) /

noun

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

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British Dictionary definitions for preacher (1 of 2)

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British Dictionary definitions for preacher (2 of 2)

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