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LECTURER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public lecturer at certain universities
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lecturer" is a kind of...):
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
Derivation:
lecture (deliver a lecture or talk)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who lectures professionally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lecturer" is a kind of...):
speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))
Instance hyponyms:
Helen Adams Keller; Helen Keller; Keller (United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968))
Derivation:
lecture (deliver a lecture or talk)
Context examples:
The uproar of his advent had not yet died away when Professor Ronald Murray, the chairman, and Mr. Waldron, the lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the proceedings began.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have been specially invited to be present upon the platform, and to move a vote of thanks to the lecturer.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not speak upon this subject as an amateur, nor, I may add, as a popular lecturer, but I speak as one whose scientific conscience compels him to adhere closely to facts, when I say that Mr. Waldron is very wrong in supposing that because he has never himself seen a so-called prehistoric animal, therefore these creatures no longer exist.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This brought the lecturer to the great ladder of animal life, beginning low down in molluscs and feeble sea creatures, then up rung by rung through reptiles and fishes, till at last we came to a kangaroo-rat, a creature which brought forth its young alive, the direct ancestor of all mammals, and presumably, therefore, of everyone in the audience.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Whatever path the lecturer took amid the wilds of the past seemed invariably to lead him to some assertion as to extinct or prehistoric life which instantly brought the same bulls' bellow from the Professor.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Popular lectures are the easiest to listen to, but Mr. Waldron (here he beamed and blinked at the lecturer) will excuse me when I say that they are necessarily both superficial and misleading, since they have to be graded to the comprehension of an ignorant audience. (Ironical cheering.)
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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