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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈdəʊ.sənt/Part of speech nounSorted cdenotStarts with DEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a teacher at some universities

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.
  • She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.

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