LECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lector mean? 

• LECTOR (noun)
  The noun LECTOR has 2 senses:

1. someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

2. a public lecturer at certain universities

  Familiarity information: LECTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lector; reader

Hypernyms ("lector" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A public lecturer at certain universities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lector; lecturer; reader

Hypernyms ("lector" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

 Context examples 

Bid the sub-chancellor send out to them Thomas the lector to read unto them from the 'Gesta beati Benedicti.'

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)