noun
Meaning 1
A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
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noun
A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
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noun
A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader; docent; lector.
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noun
A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.
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noun
a public lecturer at certain universities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lector, reader
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Broader terms: educator, pedagogue, pedagog
noun
someone who lectures professionally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
Narrower terms: Keller, Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller
History
Etymology tree English lecture Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lecturer From lecture + -er.
Across languages
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