Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The status or position of a lecturer.
- noun An endowment or foundation supporting a series or course of lectures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a lecturer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a lecturer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A position as a
lecturer . - noun A series of lectures, possibly by different lecturers, on a common theme.
- noun Something that provides for lectures to be presented.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the post of lecturer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Caldwell said the lectureship is a part of Williamson's legacy to Eastern and to the region.
Clovis News Journal : News By Clarence Plank: Freedom New Mexico 2010
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Caldwell said the lectureship is a great way to expose people and students on campus to the science fiction community.
Clovis News Journal : News By Clarence Plank: Freedom New Mexico 2010
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Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive.
Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs Seth Abramson 2010
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Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive.
Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs Seth Abramson 2010
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Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive.
Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs Seth Abramson 2010
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From next year, Oxford will also upgrade an existing fellowship in Israel studies, at St Antony's College, to a lectureship in the subject.
Oxford University appoints Israel studies professor with £3m donation 2011
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It took twenty years before Cambridge University actually gave him a lectureship, a fact that left Leavis baffled and embittered rather than regretting the disputes he had scattered in his wake and that had cost him a number of teaching jobs.
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And yes, I know liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has allowed the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund to name a lectureship after her; that's an issue, too.
Michael Winship: The Bush Legacy Strikes Out American Justice Michael Winship 2011
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Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive.
Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs Seth Abramson 2010
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I was privlileged to see and hear her not too long before her death when, despite grave illness, she insisted on doing a series of talks in a named lectureship at Oberlin College, where I now teach.
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