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Reacher vs Preacher - What's the difference?

reacher | preacher |

As nouns the difference between reacher and preacher

is that reacher is a person who reaches while preacher is someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the Quran or the gospel; a clergyman.

As a proper noun Preacher is

alternative name for Ecclesiastes, the twenty-first book of the Old Testament.

reacher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who reaches.
  • * 1985 , Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance (page 17)
    • In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.
  • A device used to reach something.
  • A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
  • * 2005 , J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay
    • Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers .
  • (obsolete) An exaggeration.
    • (Fuller)
    (Webster 1913)

    preacher

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia preacher) (en noun)
  • Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy or religion, especially someone who preaches the Quran or the gospel; a clergyman.
  • * 2004 , Garbi Schmidt, Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago , Page 171

    • Derived terms

    * preacheress