1.  missionary(n = noun.person) Array - someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program; Array
is a kind of instructor, teacher
has particulars: cyril, saint cyril, st. cyril

2.  missionary(n = noun.person) missioner - someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country; Array
is a kind of religious person
has particulars: buck, pearl buck, pearl sydenstricker buck, jacques marquette, marquette, pere jacques marquette, apostle of the gentiles, apostle paul, paul, paul the apostle, saint paul, saul, saul of tarsus, st. paul, albert schweitzer, schweitzer, junipero serra, miguel jose serra, serra, agnes gonxha bojaxhiu, mother teresa, mother theresa, teresa, theresa

   missionary(a = adj.pert) missional - relating to or connected to a religious mission; Array

   One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. [1913 Webster]

   Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund. [1913 Webster]

missionary, adj. & n.
--adj. of, concerned with, or characteristic of, religious missions.
--n. (pl. -ies) a person doing missionary work.

Idiom:
missionary position colloq. a position for sexual intercourse with the woman lying on her back and the man lying on top and facing her.

Etymology:
mod.L missionarius f. L (as MISSION)

N  clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk, clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister, father, father in Christ, padre, abbe, cure, patriarch, reverend, black coat, confessor, dignitaries of the church, ecclesiarch, hierarch, ebdomarius, eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate, deacon, deaconess, preacher, reader, lecturer, capitular, missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher, churchwarden, sidesman, clerk, precentor, choir, almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan, acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy, chorister, Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal, ancient flamen, flamen, confessor, penitentiary, spiritual director, cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer, canon regular, canon secular, Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites, Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite, Augustinian, Gilbertine, Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars, Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine, Templar, Hospitaler, Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite, abbess, prioress, canoness, religieuse, nun, novice, postulant, prophet, priest, high priest, Levite, Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe, scribe, mullah, muezzin, ayatollah, ulema, imaum, imam, sheik, sufi, kahin, kassis, mufti, hadji, dervish, fakir, faquir, brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi, druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer, the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend, ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.

N  teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.

missionary position, missionary post, missionary station, missionary work