sermon

See also sermón

English

Etymology

Latin sermō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɜːmən/
• (US) IPA: /ˈsɝmən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mən

Noun

sermon (plural sermons)

1. religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter
2. a lengthy speech of reproval

Translations

religious discourse

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講道 (cmn), 讲道 (cmn) (jiǎngdào), 布道 (cmn) (bùdào), 說教 (cmn), 说教 (cmn) (shuōjiào)

• Czech: kázání (cs) n
• Dutch: preek (nl) c
• Finnish: saarna (fi)
• French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m
• German: Predigt (de) f
• Icelandic: predikun (is) f
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

• Japanese: 説教 (ja) (せっきょう, sekkyō)
• Latvian: sprediķis (lv) m
• Malay: khutbah (ms)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: موعظه (fa) (mow'eze), خطابه (fa) (xetâbe), وعظ (fa) (va'z)
• Polish: kazanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
• Russian: проповедь (ru) (própovedʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: searmon (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: проповед (sh) f, propoved (sh) f, проповијед (sh) f, propovijed (sh) f
• Spanish: sermón (es)
• Swedish: predikan (sv) c, betraktelse (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

speech of reproval

• Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 說教 (cmn), 说教 (cmn) (shuōjiào)

• Finnish: saarna (fi)
• French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m

• German: Predigt (de) f, Moralpredigt (de) f, Strafpredigt (de) f
• Polish: kazanie (pl) n
• Russian: поучение (ru) (poučénije) n, нотация (ru) (notácija) f, проповедь (ru) (própovedʹ) f, нравоучение (ru) (nravoučénije) n
• Swedish: förmaning (sv) c, straffpredikan (sv) c, moralpredikan (sv) c

Verb

sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

2. (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• merons

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French

Etymology

Latin sermō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

sermon m (plural sermons)

1. sermon (religious speech)
2. sermon (lengthy reproval)

Anagrams

• mornes, normes