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evangelist

/ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/

evangelist noun: an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.

Noun (1)

evangelist (plural evangelists)

  1. An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
    Synonyms:
    gospeler
  2. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
  3. (primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
  4. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A patriarch.
  5. (broadly) A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
    • Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.1992, J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History, →ISBN, page 94
    • Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over...1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", →ISBN, page 10
  6. A person hired to promote a particular technology.
    • developer evangelist
    • […] and has worked in multiple roles, including as the C# Product Manager and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district.2007, James Avery, Jim Holmes, Windows Developer Power Tools, page xxii

Noun (2) capitalized: Evangelist

Evangelist (plural Evangelists)

  1. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), (also evangelist.)

evangelist meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

evangelist in Tamil

நற்செய்திநூல் ஆசிரியர், நற்செய்தியாளர், நற்பறைஞர், சுவிசேஷகர், சுவிசேடகர், கிறித்தவ மறைபரப்பாளர்

evangelist in Marathi

सुवार्तिक

evangelist in Telugu

సువార్తికుడు

evangelist in Malayalam

missionary, preacher, gospeller
സുവിശേഷകൻ, സുവിശേഷപ്രസംഗകൻ, സുവിശേഷപ്രവർത്തകൻ, സുവിശേഷവേല ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, സുവിശേഷഘോഷകൻ, സുവിശേഷം പ്രചരിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ
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evangelist in Kannada
ಸಂಚಾರಿ ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತ ಬೋಧಕ, ಬೈಬಲ್ ಸುವಾರ್ತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದವ
evangelist in Arabic
مُبَشِّر mubaššir, إِنْجِيلِيّ ʔinjīliyy, بَشِير bašīr

Examples of evangelist in a sentence

  • Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message.1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", →ISBN, page 10:
  • The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, →ISBN, page 149:
  • Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification.2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:

All 17 example sentences with evangelist

Synonyms of evangelist

Forms of evangelist

pluralevangelists
pluralEvangelists

Plural of evangelist: evangelists

Origin of evangelist

From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).

Words formed from evangelist

Phrases with evangelist

Questions about evangelist

What does evangelist mean?
Evangelist means an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
What is evangelist in Tamil?
Evangelist in Tamil is நற்செய்திநூல் ஆசிரியர், நற்செய்தியாளர், நற்பறைஞர். See Evangelist meaning in Tamil.
How do you use evangelist in a sentence?
Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message.
What part of speech is evangelist?
Evangelist is a noun.
How do you pronounce evangelist?
Evangelist is pronounced /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/.
What is the plural of evangelist?
The plural of evangelist is evangelists.

Words near evangelist in the dictionary

  1. evangelisers
  2. evangelises
  3. evangelising
  4. evangelism
  5. evangelisms
  6. evangelist
  7. Evangelista
  8. evangelistaria
  9. evangelistaries
  10. evangelistarium
  11. evangelistary

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evangelist (page history and authors); Evangelist (page history and authors); evangelist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evangelist (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evangelist (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evangelist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); evangelist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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