Lectureship definition

lĕkchər-shĭp
lectureships
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An endowment or foundation supporting a series or course of lectures.
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The definition of a lectureship is a lecturing position at a university or the foundation that financially supports a lecture series.

An example of a lectureship is a university job teaching about Indian Art.

An example of a lectureship is an endowment to fund a lecture series on marine biology.

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The status or position of a lecturer.
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The position or rank of a lecturer.
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A series of lectures or the foundation supporting such a series.
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A position as a lecturer.
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A series of lectures, possibly by different lecturers, on a common theme.
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Something that provides for lectures to be presented.
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lectureship
Plural:
lectureships

Origin of lectureship

  • Alteration of lecturership

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • lecture +"Ž -ship

    From Wiktionary

Lectureship Sentence Examples

  • In 1851 an English and in 1852 an Anglo-Saxon lectureship were established.

  • Pat has a visiting lectureship at London College of Fashion.

  • He entered the Protestant Church, and in 1663, through the influence of his friend Abraham Heidanus, who had assisted him in his greatest need, he obtained a poorly paid lectureship at the university.

  • Appointed to a lectureship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in February 1870, to a professorship at the Paris faculty of letters in 1875, and to the chair of medieval history created for him at the Sorbonne in 1878, he applied himself to the study of the political institutions of ancient France.

  • In 1658, through the kind offices of his friend John Evelyn, Taylor was offered a lectureship in Lisburn, Ireland, by Edward Conway, second Viscount Conway.

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