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# lecturer

«lecturer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who teaches students at a university or college…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lecturer, lecturers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who teaches students at a university or college, often by giving talks called lectures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#m1)

2) Anyone who gives a talk to an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a university teacher; in the UK «lecturer» is a job title below «professor». In the USA such people are often called professors. In stories, «lecturing» someone also means telling them off at length.

### examples

- My aunt is a lecturer in chemistry at the university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x1)
- The lecturer showed slides of the planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x2)
- The students took notes while the lecturer spoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x3)
- A visiting lecturer talked about whales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x4)
- Mum said, «Stop lecturing me, I'm not one of your students!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x5)
- He became a lecturer after finishing his PhD. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x6)
- "At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/#x7)

### note

From «lecture» + «-r». «Lecture» also means a long telling-off. Lecturer = person; lecture = the talk.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lecturer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecturer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.