PRECEPTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preceptor mean? 

• PRECEPTOR (noun)
  The noun PRECEPTOR has 1 sense:

1. teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

  Familiarity information: PRECEPTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECEPTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

don; preceptor

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

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

preceptorship (the position of preceptor)

 Context examples 

Whereas I hold, shouted the other, with my revered preceptor, doctor, praeclarus et excellentissimus, that all things are but thought; for when thought is gone I prythee where are the things then?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Down went the black legs and up came the gray head, as the preceptor said, with undisturbed dignity, Good evening, Mr. Bhaer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)