docent

comparative more docent · superlative most docent

1. Instructive; that teaches.

plural docents

1. A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)

   Near-synonyms: preceptor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor

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   The docent is available for office hours and can help to connect students with tutors.

   Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212

   Synonyms: preceptor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor

2. USA tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

   The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.

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   She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.

   2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149