Definitions for lector

lector lec·tor

Spelling: [lek-ter]
IPA: /ˈlɛk tər/

Lector is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in lector (celort).

Definitions for lector

noun

  1. a lecturer in a college or university.
  2. Roman Catholic Church. a member of the next to lowest-ranking of the minor orders. the order itself. Compare acolyte (def 2), exorcist (def 2), ostiary (def 1).

Origin of lector

1425-75; late Middle English Latin: a reader, equivalent to leg(ere) to read + -tor -tor

Examples for lector

For the meaning of lector, professor of theology, cf. Du Cange.

Sad enough, lector, but beautiful for all that, beautiful as winter.

He was certainly a Minorite in 1422, when he matriculated at Erfurt as lector Minorum.

lector Booklund was standing at his desk with the whole pile in front of him.

The Count begged the lector not to sit long with the busy Minister.

O my lector, what a poor substitute is that for a certainty!

Already the voice of the lector was vibrating through the church.

Bid the sub-chancellor send out to them Thomas the lector to read unto them from the 'Gesta beati Benedicti.'

This may equally well have been Henry de Apeltre, the twelfth lector.

During the meal a lector read to them the Idyls of Theocritus.

Word Value for lector
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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