lecturer

English

Etymology

From lecture +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛkt͡ʃəɹə/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛkt͡ʃɚɚ/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlekt͡ʃəɹə/

Noun

lecturer (plural lecturers)

1. A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
   • 1982, Hubert Ingram Bermont, The Complete Consultant: A Roadmap to Success, page 9:

     The lecturers are expert on lecturing on the subject, but they offer the splatterdash method of disseminating information with no point of view of their own.

   • 2003 December 21, Joseph P. Fried, “The Duke of Dupery, Still Pulling the Wool”, in The New York Times, page N51:

     Mr. Abel, who lives in Westport, Conn., has earned his bread as a writer and lecturer on problem-solving tactics, and he has earned a reputation as a duke of dupery since 1959, when he masterminded the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.

2. A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader; docent; lector.
3. (dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.

Derived terms

• senior lecturer
• visiting lecturer

Translations

person who gives lectures

• Arabic: مُحَاضِر m (muḥāḍir)
• Armenian: դասախոս (hy) (dasaxos)
• Azerbaijani: mühazirəçi, lektor
• Bulgarian: лектор (bg) m (lektor)
• Burmese: ကထိက (my) (ka.hti.ka.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講師 / 讲师 (zh) (jiǎngshī), 演讲者

• Czech: přednášející (cs)
• Finnish: luennoija (fi), luennoitsija (fi)
• French: conférencier (fr) m, lecteur (fr), maître de conférences (fr) m
• Georgian: ლექტორი (lekṭori)
• German: Lektor (de) m, Lektorin (de) f
• Greek: λέκτορας (el) m or f (léktoras)
• Hindi: प्राध्यापक (hi) m (prādhyāpak)
• Hungarian: előadó (hu), oktató (hu), (external lecturer) óraadó (tanár)
• Icelandic: fyrirlesari m
• Indonesian: dosen (id)
• Irish: léachtóir m
• Italian: conferenziere (it) m
• Japanese: 講師 (ja) (こうし, kōshi)
• Korean: 강사 (ko) (gangsa)
• Macedonian: предавач m (predavač)
• Malay: pensyarah (ms)
• Maori: kaikauhau, kaikauwhau
• Meru: muritani
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foredragsholder m

  Nynorsk: foredragshaldar m, føredragshaldar m

• Polish: wykładowca (pl) m, wykładowczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: palestrante (pt) m or f
• Russian: ле́ктор (ru) m (léktor)
• Spanish: docente (es) m, aleccionador (es) m, conferenciante (es) m or f, conferencista (es) m or f, lector (es) m
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw), mhadhiri
• Swedish: föreläsare (sv) c
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
• Turkish: lektör (tr)
• Vietnamese: giảng viên (vi)
• Welsh: darlithydd (cy) m

member of university or college

• Armenian: դասախոս (hy) (dasaxos)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讲师 (zh) (jiǎngshī)

• Finnish: lehtori (fi)
• French: maître de conférence (fr) m
• German: Lektor (de) m, Lektorin (de) f, Dozent (de) m, Dozentin (de) f
• Greek: επιμελητής (el) m (epimelitís), επιμελήτρια (el) f (epimelítria)
• Hungarian: (senior lecturer) adjunktus (hu), (assistant lecturer/professor) tanársegéd (hu)
• Icelandic: lektor (is) m
• Indonesian: dosen (id), lektor (id)
• Irish: léachtóir m
• Macedonian: доцент m (docent)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foreleser m

  Nynorsk: forelesar m, førelesar m

• Polish: wykładowca (pl) m, wykładowczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: docente (pt) m or f
• Russian: преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ)
• Spanish: docente (es) m or f, lector (es) m
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw)
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
• Ukrainian: виклада́ч m (vykladáč), виклада́чка f (vykladáčka)

dated: member of the Church of England clergy

• Finnish: apupappi
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw)