Meaning

6 senses
  1. An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.

    Evangelist, Evangelistin

    евангели́стjevangelíst, евангели́сткаjevangelístka

  2. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).

    Evangelist, Evangelistin, Evangelist

    евангели́стjevangelíst, евангели́сткаjevangelístka, евангели́стjevangelíst

    (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

  3. A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.

  4. A patriarch.

  5. (broadly)A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.

  6. A person hired to promote a particular technology.

    developer evangelist

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom isn't an evangelist.

  2. Are you an evangelist?

  3. Tom is an evangelist.

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  4. Many of Tom's friends think he'll likely become an evangelist.

  5. The tele-evangelist has a large, if deluded, following.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist:

Origin

From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evang

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”).

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