: a person who leads guided tours especially through a museum or art gallery
Did you know?
The title of docent is used in many countries for what Americans would call an associate professor—that is, a college or university teacher who has been given tenure but hasn't yet achieved the rank of full professor. But in the U.S. a docent is a guide who works at a museum, a historical site, or even a zoo or a park. Docents are usually volunteers, and their services are often free of charge.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe two moved to Ann Arbor to start a family, where Patton Moss worked as a docent at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and was involved in several local organizations. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022 The couple relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Moss began a career as a businesswoman, raised a family of three children and served as a docent at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Variety, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022 The couple relocated to Ann Arbor, Mich., where Moss began a career as a businesswoman, raised a family of three children and served as a docent at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2022 Chance, a history buff, was a docent with the organization and one of its youngest board members ever. Pam Mcloughlin, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2022 The museum briefly paid a high school student to be a docent in the summer, but now all the work is done by volunteers. Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 July 2022 Sikes has been studying these Alaska insects since a docent at the Museum of the North brought in a picture of the larvae and some specimens back in 2007. Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022 Charlotte Sue Zentz Lister, a retired pharmacist who was a Baltimore Museum of Art docent, died of dementia July 3 at Inspir Carnegie Hill in New York City. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2022 June 25, Join a Loxahatchee Battlefield Preservationist docent on a battlefield tour and learn of the Second Seminole War battles. Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
obsolete German (now Dozent), from Latin docent-, docens, present participle of docēre — see docile