missionary

IPA: mˈɪʃʌnɛri

One who is sent on a mission.
(religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).
(derogatory) A religious messenger.
(uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
(uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.

Examples of "missionary" in Sentences

The word missionary always seemed to facilitate entry when needed.
The statistics concerning the personnel of the mission should state how many are priests, the term missionary being used exclusively of such.
This, be it remembered, is the testimony of an ideal industrial missionary, who, however, was also much more than a mere industrial missionary*
This missionary had a son in the school, and I noticed that, whatever the missionary might have said or done with regard to others, he was careful not to take his son away from the institution.
Since the Cooch seems awfully interested in what consenting adults do in private the follow up question regarding “the acts” part of his response should have been whether missionary is the only “culturally normal” form of hetero sex
Since the Cooch seems awfully interested in what consenting adults do in private the follow up question regarding “the acts” part of his response should have been whether missionary is the only “culturally normal” form of hetero sex.
So now a third phase has begun: the Service signals, in a report of some 94 pages, the emergence of professionally-organized Dawa preaching, which it defines as the missionary spreading of a radical-Islamic ideology from a Salafist angle, which explicitly does not champion violence.