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

• colecturer
• lecturership
• senior lecturer
• sublecturer
• visiting lecturer

Translations

person who gives lectures

• Albanian: ligjërues (sq) m
• Arabic: مُحَاضِر m (muḥāḍir), مُحَاضِرَة f (muḥāḍira)
• Armenian: դասախոս (hy) (dasaxos)
• Azerbaijani: mühazirəçi, lektor
• Belarusian: ле́ктар m (ljéktar), ле́ктарка f (ljéktarka)
• Bengali: প্রভাষক (probhaśok)
• Bulgarian: ле́ктор (bg) m (léktor), ле́кторка f (léktorka)
• Burmese: ကထိက (my) (ka.hti.ka.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 講師 / 讲师 (gong² si¹)

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

• Czech: přednášející (cs)
• Danish: forelæser c
• Dutch: lector (nl) m
• Estonian: õppejõud (et), lektor
• 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)
• Hebrew: מַרְצֶה m (martsé), מַרְצָה f (martsá)
• Hindi: प्राध्यापक (hi) m (prādhyāpak), व्याख्याता (hi) m (vyākhyātā), लेक्चरर (hi) m (lekcarar)
• 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)
• Kazakh: лектор (lektor)
• Khmer: សាស្ត្រាចារ្យ (km) (saahstraacaa), អាចារ្យ (km) (ʼaacaa)
• Korean: 강사(講師) (ko) (gangsa)
• Kyrgyz: лектор (lektor)
• Lao: ອາຈານ (ʼā chān)
• Latvian: lektors m, pasniedzējs m
• Lithuanian: dėstytojas m, lektorius m
• Macedonian: предавач m (predavač)
• Malay: pensyarah (ms)
• Māori: kaikauhau, kaikauwhau
• Meru: muritani
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: лектор (mn) (lektor), лекц уншигч (lekc unšigč), илтгэгч (mn) (iltgegč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foredragsholder m

  Nynorsk: foredragshaldar m, føredragshaldar m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مُدَرِّس (fa) (modarres), مُرَبّی (fa) (morabbi)

• Polish: wykładowca (pl) m, wykładowczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: palestrante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: lector (ro) m
• Russian: ле́ктор (ru) m (léktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преда̀ва̄ч m

  Roman: predàvāč (sh) m

• Slovak: prednášajúci m
• Slovene: predavatelj m
• 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
• Tajik: лектор (lektor)
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
• Turkish: lektör (tr), öğretim görevlisi (tr)
• Turkmen: lektor
• Ukrainian: ле́ктор m (léktor), ле́кторка f (léktorka)
• Urdu: مُدَرِّس m (mudarris), لیکْچَرَر m (lekcarar)
• Uyghur: لېكتور (lëktor)
• Uzbek: lektor (uz)
• Vietnamese: giảng viên (vi) (講員)
• Welsh: darlithydd (cy) m

member of university or college

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

  Mandarin: 講師 / 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 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), доце́нт (ru) m (docént)
• Spanish: docente (es) m or f, lector (es) m
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw)
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
• Ukrainian: виклада́ч m (vykladáč), виклада́чка f (vykladáčka), доце́нт (uk) m (docént)

dated: member of the Church of England clergy

• Finnish: apupappi
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw)