lectureship

[ lek-cher-ship ]

/ ˈlɛk tʃərˌʃɪp /

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noun

the office of lecturer.

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Origin of lectureship

First recorded in 1625–35; lecture + -ship

Words nearby lectureship

lectionary, lector, lectotype, lecture, lecturer, lectureship, Lecuona, lecythus, led, Leda, Leda and the swan

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How to use lectureship in a sentence

You see, in a bid to juice enrollment, the university decided to go over Ji-Yoon’s head and give their Distinguished Lectureship post to Duchovny, and she’s determined to talk him out of it.
David Duchovny Turned Down Scientology, Doesn’t Care About UFOs, and Loves Making Sweet Music|Marlow Stern|August 26, 2021|The Daily Beast
Already before he had been appointed to that lectureship in Florence he had felt himself seriously ill.
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study|Edward Hutton
There's the assistant lectureship vacant, and the Professor would not like anyone so much.
Magnum Bonum|Charlotte M. Yonge
Then you and he regard the Lanfear lectureship as having been founded to perpetuate a dogma, not to try and get at the truth?
Tales Of Men And Ghosts|Edith Wharton

Studied mathematics, and accepted an astronomical lectureship at Graz as the first post which offered.
Pioneers of Science|Oliver Lodge
He would found a lectureship, somewhat like, yet most unlike, that afterward conducted by Joseph Cook.
Starr King in California|William Day Simonds

British Dictionary definitions for lectureship

lectureship

/ (ˈlɛktʃəˌʃɪp) /

noun

the office or position of lecturer

an endowment financing a series of lectures

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