lecturer

noun

Definition of lecturernext
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 That month, a protest was held outside a classroom in Sweeney Hall where a guest lecturer, Jeffrey Blutinger, was speaking about the war. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 July 2026 Big Brain Lectures and Common Knowledge both bring interesting lecturers to venues around Sacramento. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026 According to historian, author and lecturer Roger Smith, Florida's absence from most Revolutionary War lessons stems from one key fact. — Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Jordan McLeod is a former meteorology lecturer at the University of South Alabama and future doctoral student. — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Taiwan was also the first traceable point of the passing of the many Austronesian languages, said Victoria Chen, a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. — Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 Given that the early days of the conflict cost $1 billion per day, Linda Bilmes, a Harvard Kennedy School senior public policy lecturer and a federal budget expert, said spending is more likely to total the $200 billion in additional funds the Pentagon requested back in March. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 24 June 2026 Speakers so far include Bharath Ganesh Babu, a geographer and professor at Valparaiso University; Christina Davis, a lecturer at Valparaiso University; and Nicole Harmon, director of wildlife rehabilitation for Humane Indiana. — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
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  1. speaker
  2. orator
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  • The Listening Room by OJAS, with its world-class speaker system and vinyl selection curated by sound sculptor Devon Turnbull, is the site of morning soundscape sessions.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • Spanish language speakers can access matches with Spanish commentary on Telemundo or Universo, NBC’s Spanish-language cable channels.
    — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of speaker
Noun
  • Photography and the secret of Frederick Douglass' power Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • The Greek philosopher and orator Antisthenes, commonly referred to as the father of Cynicism, famously taught his students at the Cynosarges.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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