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Docent vs Regent - What's the difference?

docent | regent |

As nouns the difference between docent and regent

is that docent is a teacher or lecturer at some american colleges or universities while regent is regent.

As an adjective docent

is instructive; that teaches.

docent

English

(wikipedia docent)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive; that teaches.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teacher or lecturer at some American colleges or universities.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 1212:
    • 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.
  • (chiefly, US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
    • The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Louvre.

    Related terms

    * docile * doctor * doctorate * doctrinaire * doctrinal * doctrine * document * indoctrinate

    regent

    English

    (wikipedia regent)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
  • *:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

    • Related terms

    * regimen * regiment * * region * rector * rectum * rectangle * rectilinear

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
  • Exercising vicarious authority.
    • (Milton)

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