docent
noun/ˈdəʊsnt/
/ˈdəʊsnt/
(North American English)- a person whose job is to show tourists around a museum, etc. and talk to them about it
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- a teacher at some universities who is not a regular member of the department
Word Originlate 19th cent.: via German from Latin docent- ‘teaching’, from docere ‘teach’.
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