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lectureship

lectureship

1 6.7
A job for a teacher at a college or university who gives talks in class
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛk.tʃɚ.ʃɪp/
  • Formal
translation icon : cátedra
  • The other exciting but time-consuming event was that she has started a new job, having been appointed to a permanent lectureship.
  • Fulbright lectureship

Examples

  • He has just been appointed to a temporary lectureship at Goldsmiths College.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • My lectureship starts in September.

    Lolita (1962)

  • Prior to my application for the lectureship, I discussed the topic of my lectures, individual titles, and reading assignments with my hosts.

    Academic text (2003)

  • In the next few months, he will undertake lectureships in Birmingham, England, and in Sydney, Australia.

    Academic text (2016)

  • In 1966, Paul applied for a Fulbright lectureship in Spain and was chosen as a Fulbright lecturer in English and American literature.

    Academic text (1999)

  • An important initiative by MGU was the establishment of the Fulbright Lectureship, now designated as the Sivachev Chair.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The figures also showed that there were only 157 female lecturers in the professorial and senior lectureship positions as of the 1996/97 academic year.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The professor packed him off to a lectureship at the University of Rangoon in colonial Burma in 1937, hoping that he would mellow into a conservative.

    Academic text (2000)

  • My knowledge of New England consisted of several conferences held within comfortable hotels, a guest lectureship at Johns Hopkins, and a frustrating day of maneuvering a rented car through rotaries in an attempt to find Cape Cod.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Tony's been offered a lectureship at his old college in Oxford.

Synonyms

instructorship
vslectureship
  • Formal
7.4

A teaching job at a college or university

is a university post focused on delivering formal courses
teachership
vslectureship
7.2

The job of giving lessons in a school or college

is specific to university posts rather than general school teaching

How Senior

professorship
  • Formal
5 6.7
lectureship
  • Formal
1 6.7

Surface Forms

lectureship singular
lectureships plural

Morphology

lectureship = lecturer (transparent) = lecture + er + ship

Formed from the recognizable base 'lecturer' plus the productive suffix '-ship' meaning an office or position; the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Lectureship comes from lecture, a word that comes from a root meaning 'to read' and now means 'a prepared talk or class', plus the ending -ship, which means 'position' or 'state', as in friendship. So a lectureship is the 'position' someone holds when their job is to give lectures at a college or university.