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LECTOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public lecturer at certain universities

Synonyms:

lector; lecturer; reader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lector; reader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

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