LECTURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lecturer mean? 

• LECTURER (noun)
  The noun LECTURER has 2 senses:

1. a public lecturer at certain universities

2. someone who lectures professionally

  Familiarity information: LECTURER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LECTURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public lecturer at certain universities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lector; lecturer; reader

Hypernyms ("lecturer" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Derivation:

lecture (deliver a lecture or talk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who lectures professionally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lecturer" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Instance hyponyms:

Helen Adams Keller; Helen Keller; Keller (United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968))

Derivation:

lecture (deliver a lecture or talk)

 Context examples 

What is the particular point upon which I, as an original investigator, have challenged our lecturer's accuracy?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr. Hilton Soames, tutor and lecturer at the College of St. Luke’s.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Tip-of-the-tongue moments are very noticeable. They are irritating and embarrassing," said lead researcher Katrien Segaert, a psychology lecturer at the University of Birmingham in England.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It must be very difficult to keep Anhalt from appearing a formal, solemn lecturer; and the man who chuses the profession itself is, perhaps, one of the last who would wish to represent it on the stage.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This could also improve health and decrease the risk of illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, according to Dr. Javier Gonzalez, co-author of the study and senior lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The lecturer unlocked the outer door and ushered us into his room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Popular lecturers are in their nature parasitic. (Angry gesture of protest from Mr. Waldron.)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a lecturer and a consultant, but he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Waldron, though a hardened lecturer and a strong man, became rattled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he sat down, and Mr. Waldron, the famous popular lecturer, rose amid a general murmur of applause.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)