evangelist

Meaning

1. An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
2. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
3. A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
4. A patriarch.
5. 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.
7. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), (also evangelist.)

Etymology / origin

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”).

Related words

Descendant words

• evankelista(Finnish) (cog)

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