how to pronounce missionary

/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹiː/

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missionary is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of missionary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… congratulate our missionary care heroes …”

meaning of missionary

A missionary is a person who is sent to a foreign country to spread the religion of their faith.

missionary frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word missionary occurs in english on average 5.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics missionary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that missionary can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;