MISSIONERS Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

missioners

noun

plural of missioner

as in missionaries

a person who is sent especially to a foreign country to do religious work (such as converting people to the religion or ministering to the sick) The church has a program in which volunteers spend one year abroad as missioners.

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Recent Examples of missioners In 1976, the residence was redesigned as a retirement home for church missioners. — George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 June 2026

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Elsewhere near Ensenada, Mexican soldiers used helicopters to rescue 32 people, including 13 minors, from Rancho Genesis, a camp for orphans staffed by missionaries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
William Catto brought his family north to Baltimore with plans to eventually travel to Liberia as missionaries.

— Timothy Welbeck, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026

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In an email sent to priests of the archdiocese on Saturday afternoon and shared with NPR, Archbishop Ronald Hicks also said the deal had not yet been signed but that an agreement had been reached with plaintiffs and their attorneys.

— Chandelis Duster, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
The Georgetown initiative focuses on descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown's Jesuit priests to slaveholders in Louisiana.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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