lecturer

Definition of lecturernext
as in speaker
a person who makes usually formal public speeches this evening's lecturer has an uncanny ability to make highly abstruse material understandable to lay audiences

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Recent Examples of lecturer Her mother, who is Welsh, was a university lecturer, and her father, originally from Liverpool, worked his way up from bussing tables at a hotel restaurant to running the business. Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Go now as our lecturer said that with climate change, ships may be traversing through the Arctic in the future, instead. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026 The conversation will be moderated by Mateo Sancho Cardiel, a CUNY sociology lecturer whose doctoral research compared the lives of gay older adults in Madrid and New York. Callum McLennan, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026 The series explores the influence of Caravaggio’s techniques on cinema, particularly the contrast between light and darkness, said Jay Morong, creative director for IPH and senior lecturer college of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte. Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026 Kevin Warsh, fellow in economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, May 8, 2017. Emily Wilkins,matt Peterson, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026 Tarkanian is a senior lecturer of material science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026 Anthropic's decision to hold off on releasing Mythos and launching Project Glasswing aligns with that image, noted Columbia Business School marketing lecturer Malek Ben Sliman. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lecturer
Noun
  • The Allman Brothers played on a speaker nearby.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Huge speakers projected them loud across the desert landscape.
    Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The power of an orator who can, in this way, fuse feeling and doctrine is immense.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Her father Walter was a prominent lawyer and orator.
    Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026

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“Lecturer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lecturer. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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