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
Six student teams from McDaniel College’s Entrepreneurship course, taught by adjunct lecturer in Economics and Business Administration Jonathan Pernell, competed for a $5,000 top prize by presenting their entrepreneurial ideas and innovative products to a panel of experts.
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Jeffrey F. Bill, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
Johnson has been traveling to South Florida for a week each month this semester as a visiting lecturer and co-teacher in a University of Miami political science class.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Enbang Li, a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Physics, has developed a simple yet effective technique for bending light using gravity.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
Sarah has served as an adjunct professor of entertainment law at Duke and is a frequent guest lecturer for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Stern School of Business.
—Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Steve Baron, a member of the county’s Child Abuse Prevention Council and former child welfare lecturer at Santa Clara University, cautioned against jumping to conclusions.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
Julio, the bratty, charming man-child, is the lecturer.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
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
Jeffrey F. Bill, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
Johnson has been traveling to South Florida for a week each month this semester as a visiting lecturer and co-teacher in a University of Miami political science class.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Enbang Li, a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Physics, has developed a simple yet effective technique for bending light using gravity.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
Sarah has served as an adjunct professor of entertainment law at Duke and is a frequent guest lecturer for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Stern School of Business.
—Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Steve Baron, a member of the county’s Child Abuse Prevention Council and former child welfare lecturer at Santa Clara University, cautioned against jumping to conclusions.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
Julio, the bratty, charming man-child, is the lecturer.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lecturer
Noun
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Deborah Courtney drove more than two hours from from Jacksonville and noted that all citizen speakers expressed opposition.—
Bill Barrow,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Before a baseball game, Cerasuolo will take out a rolling speaker and let her athletes select a walk-up song to build up their confidence.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The power of an orator who can, in this way, fuse feeling and doctrine is immense.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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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 2 May. 2026.
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