adj
Meaning 1
Instructive; that teaches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
docent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdəʊ.sənt/
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US: /ˈdoʊ.sənt/
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CMU ARPABET: D OW1 S AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Examples
- The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a teacher at some universities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: teacher, instructor
History
Etymology
From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: դոցենտ (docʻent) — teacher or lecturer in university
- Catalan: docent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Chinese Mandarin: 講師 /讲师 (jiǎngshī) — teacher or lecturer in university
- Danish: docent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Dutch: docent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Finnish: dosentti — teacher or lecturer in university
- German: Dozent — teacher or lecturer in university
- German: Dozentin — teacher or lecturer in university
- Hungarian: docens — teacher or lecturer in university
- Icelandic: dósent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Indonesian: dosen — teacher or lecturer in university
- Japanese: 講師 (kōshi) — teacher or lecturer in university
- Muna: dose — teacher or lecturer in university
- Norwegian Bokmål: dosent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dosent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Spanish: docente — teacher or lecturer in university
- Swedish: docent — teacher or lecturer in university
- Swedish: föreläsare — teacher or lecturer in university
- Yiddish: דאָצענט (dotsent) — teacher or lecturer in university
- Chinese Mandarin: 講解員 /讲解员 (jiǎngjiěyuán) — tour guide
- Danish: omviser — tour guide
- Finnish: opas — tour guide
- Hungarian: idegenvezető — tour guide
- Hungarian: tárlatvezető — tour guide
- Japanese: ガイド (gaido) — tour guide
- Swedish: föreläsare — tour guide
- Swedish: talare — tour guide
- Swedish: museiguide — tour guide