Other forms: lecturers
A lecturer is a teacher at a university. A university lecturer, a senior lecturer, work as a lecturer.
In Britain it is a rank: lecturer, then senior lecturer, then reader, then professor. In America the same word means something quite different and usually more junior, often without a permanent post, which causes confusion in job advertisements.
1nounlecturerA teacher at a university.
“The lecturer spoke for an hour while the students took notes.”
lecturer is a teacher.
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ-
Latin
lectura — reading
Middle English
lecture
English
lecture
English, today
lecturer
Built from
From lecture + -er. lecture comes from Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin - or Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). a doublet of lector.
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