docentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdəʊ.sənt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdoʊ.sənt/

形容詞

docent (comparative more docent, superlative most docent)

1. Instructive; that teaches.

名詞

docent (plural docents)

1. A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212:

     Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

2. (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

   The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.

   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149:

     She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.

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