missionair

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French missionnaire. Equivalent to missie +‎ -air.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌmɪ.ʃoːˈnɛːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mis‧si‧o‧nair
  • Rhymes: -ɛːr

Adjective

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missionair (not comparable)

  1. (religion, chiefly Roman Catholicism) missionary, active in or pertaining to mission
  2. (politics, of the executive power) having a political mandate, seeking to enact a political programme

Inflection

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Declension of missionair
uninflected missionair
inflected missionaire
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial missionair
indefinite m./f. sing. missionaire
n. sing. missionair
plural missionaire
definite missionaire
partitive missionairs