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comparative more docent, superlative most docent
Instructive; that teaches. examples
plural docents
A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) quotations examples
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.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212
(chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc. quotations examples
She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.
2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149