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lecturer
(lektʃərəʳ)
Word forms: plural lecturers
countable noun
A lecturer is a teacher at a university or college.
...a lecturer in law at Southampton University. [+ in]
Synonyms: teacher, tutor, academic, professor More Synonyms of lecturer
lecturer in British English
(ˈlɛktʃərə)
noun
1.
a person who lectures
2.
a teacher in higher education without professorial status
lecturer in American English
(ˈlɛktʃərər)
noun
a person who gives lectures, esp. by profession or in connection with teaching duties
sometimes used as an academic title for one who teaches at a college or universitybut does not have the rank or tenure of a regular faculty memberCOBUILD Collocationslecturer
assistant lecturer
college lecturer
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In other languageslecturer
British English: lecturer /ˈlɛktʃərə/ NOUN
A lecturer is a teacher at university or college.
...a lecturer in law.
- American English: lecturer
- Arabic: مُحَاضِرٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: palestrante
- Chinese: 讲师
- Croatian: predavač
- Czech: přednášející
- Danish: forelæser
- Dutch: spreker
- European Spanish: profesor universitario
- Finnish: luennoitsija
- French: maître de conférences
- German: Vortragender
- Greek: λέκτωρ
- Italian: relatore
- Japanese: 講師
- Korean: 강사
- Norwegian: foreleser
- Polish: wykładowca
- European Portuguese: conferencista
- Romanian: lector
- Russian: лектор
- Latin American Spanish: profesor universitario
- Swedish: föreläsare
- Thai: ผู้บรรยาย
- Turkish: okutman
- Ukrainian: викладач
- Vietnamese: giảng viên
Chinese translation of 'lecturer'
lecturer
(ˈlɛktʃərəʳ)
n (c)
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讲(講)师(師)
(jiǎngshī) (位, wèi)
(noun)
a lecturer in Law at Southampton University
Synonyms
teacher
I'm a teacher with 21 years' experience.
tutor
He surprised his tutors by failing the exam.
academic
He is an academic who believes in winning through argument.
professor
don
The train was full of university dons.
reader
speaker
He was not a good speaker.
preacher
public speaker
expositor
Additional synonyms
in the sense of academic
Definition
a member of the teaching or research staff of a college or university
He is an academic who believes in winning through argument.
Synonyms
scholar,
intellectual,
don,
student,
master,
professor,
fellow,
pupil,
lecturer,
tutor,
scholastic,
bookworm,
man or woman of letters,
egghead (informal),
savant,
academician,
acca (Australian, slang),
bluestocking (derogatory),
schoolman (US, rare, old-fashioned)
in the sense of don
Definition
a member of the teaching staff at a university or college
The train was full of university dons.
Synonyms
lecturer,
professor,
fellow,
academic,
acca (Australian, slang),
scholarin the sense of speaker
Definition
a person who speaks, esp. someone making a speech
He was not a good speaker.
Synonyms
orator,
public speaker,
lecturer,
or woman or person">spokesman or woman or person,
mouthpiece,
spieler (informal),
word-spinner
Synonyms of 'lecturer'
lecturer
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of tutor
Definition
a teacher, usually one instructing individual pupils
He surprised his tutors by failing the exam.
Synonyms
teacher,
coach,
instructor,
educator,
guide,
governor,
guardian,
lecturer,
guru,
mentor,
preceptor,
master or mistress,
schoolmaster or schoolmistress
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