How to pronounce missionary

How do you say missionary?

What does missionary mean?

noun, plural mis·sion·ar·ies. Also mis·sion·er for 1-3 . a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work: There are opportunities for student missionaries living abroad to work with the poor, participate in building projects, and share the Gospel.

Is the word missionary a noun?

Missionary can be a noun — the person who goes on a mission — or an adjective — the type of work done on such a trip. If your great-grandmother was a missionary for the Methodist church in Japan in the 1920s, her purpose there was to convince people to abandon their religion for Methodism.

Is the T silent in exactly?

When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.