lecturer

noun

lec·​tur·​er

plural -s

1

: one that lectures

specifically : one giving a lecture course in a college or university

the best lecturer on the campus

2

: a clergyman in the Church of England holding an ancient teaching and preaching office

to church, where our lecturer made a sorry silly sermon

—Samuel Pepys

3

a

: a member of the faculty of a British college or university who ranks below a professor

b

: a member of a college or university faculty having a temporary or part-time appointment

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