Word Study
lector
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lector has 2 senses
- lector(n = noun.person) reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church; Array is a kind of clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend, holy order, order
- lector(n = noun.person) lecturer, reader - a public lecturer at certain universities; Array is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
CIDE DICTIONARY
lector, n. [L. See Lection.].
A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lector, n.
1 a reader, esp. of lessons in a church service.
2 (fem. lectrice) a lecturer or reader, esp. one employed in a foreign university to give instruction in his or her native language.
1 a reader, esp. of lessons in a church service.
2 (fem. lectrice) a lecturer or reader, esp. one employed in a foreign university to give instruction in his or her native language.
Etymology
L f. legere lect- read
THESAURUS
lector
Bible clerk, Bible reader, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, anagnost, beadle, bedral, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, diaconus, doorkeeper, elder, elderman, exorcist, exorcista, holy orders, homilist, lay elder, lay reader, lecturer, major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, parish clerk, praelector, preacher, precentor, presbyter, priest, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sexton, shames, sidesman, subdeacon, subdiaconus, succentor, suisse, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress
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