docent
nounEtymology 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.
1
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.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212:
2
US 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.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149:
- Related terms
- docile, doctor, doctorate, doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrine, document, indoctrinate