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Lector
A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
📖 Definitions of "Lector"
noun
- 1
A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
- 2
A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
- 3
(cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| lecturernoun | A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession. |
| readernoun | A person who reads. |
| caveatnoun | A warning. |
| lectournoun | Obsolete form of lector. [(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.] |
| lay readernoun | (religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services. |
| anagnostnoun | (now chiefly historical) Someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service. |
| voorlesernoun | (US, historical) A prominent citizen in New Amsterdam, whose duties spanned across law, education and religion. |
| lay speakernoun | (religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services. |
| lectureenoun | One who listens to a lecture. |
| prelectornoun | (archaic) Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer. |
| lectressnoun | (dated) A female lector. |
| liturgistnoun | One who leads public worship. |
| lay rectornoun | A layman who enjoys the great tithes of a parish. |
| listenernoun | Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. |
| lay judgenoun | A lay person who acts as (or is) a judge, or who assists a (professional) judge, in a court proceeding (especially in jurisdictions which do not use juries). |
| praelectornoun | Alternative form of prelector. [(archaic) Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.] |
| laicnoun | A layperson as opposed to a cleric, i.e. not a member of the clergy. |
| lay preachernoun | (religion)A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in a religious denomination. |
| lay personnoun | Alternative form of layperson. [A person who is not a cleric.] |
| laymannoun | (by extension) Someone who is not a professional in a given field. |
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