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English
Etymology
From lecture + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
lecturer (plural lecturers)
- A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
- A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader; docent; lector.
- (dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.
Derived terms
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
- Swahili: mkufunzi (sw), mhadhiri
- Swedish: föreläsare (sv) c
- Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
- Turkish: lektör (tr)
- Vietnamese: giảng viên (vi)
- Welsh: darlithydd (cy) m
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member of university or college
dated: member of the Church of England clergy