docent
adj/ˈdəʊ.sənt/UK/ˈdoʊ.sənt/US
Etymology
From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.
- derived from Dozent
- derived from Privatdozent
- borrowed from docēns
Definitions
Instructive
Instructive; that teaches.
A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
- 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.
A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
- The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.
- She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.
The neighborhood
- neighbordocile
- neighbordoctor
- neighbordoctorate
- neighbordoctrinaire
- neighbordoctrinal
- neighbordoctrine
- neighbordocument
- neighborindoctrinate
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for docent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA