Preacher

Definition

preach /pri:ts/ v ၁။ (က) ~ (to sb) (about/ against/ on sth) တရားေဟာသည္။ ေဟာေျပာသည္။ preach a sermon every Sunday ❍ The vicar preached to the congregation for half an hour. ❍ He preached against violence. (ခ) တရားေဒသနာ ေဟာၾကားသည္။ preach the Gospel/ the word of God ❍ They preached the new doctrines throughout Europe. ၂။ ဆြယ္တရားေဟာသည္။ တရားေဟာသည္။ နားခ်သည္။ He was always preaching the virtues of capitalism. ၃။ ~ (at/ to sb) ( often derog ) ဆရာလုပ္ သည္။ မိေက်ာင္းမင္း ေရခင္းျပသည္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးကိုစာခ်သည္။ I am tired of listening to you preach (at me). ❍ You are in no position to preach to me about honesty! ❏ preach to the converted [ IDM ] ဘုန္းႀကီးစာခ်သည္။ Rousing speeches to faithful party members is simply preaching to the converted. ❏ preacher n တရားေဟာဆရာ။ a good preacher ❍ a preacher famous for his inspiring sermons.

Examples

1. [preach a sermon] : The Reverend Hugh McKeag preached the sermon.
2. [preach to] : That afternoon he preached to three thousand people.
3. [preach about/against] : People flocked to hear him preach about Jesus.
4. I don’t mean to preach
5. but I think it’s time to get serious about your relationship.
6. Both my parents have always preached tolerance and moderation.
7. [preach the values/virtues/evils of something] : He preaches the virtues of hard work.