PRECEPTOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

Synonyms:

don; preceptor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("preceptor" is a kind of...):

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

preceptorship (the position of preceptor)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb preceptor