Instructive; that teaches.

A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) / (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

plural of docent

(in some German universities) A lecturer who may teach without supervision by a professor

(in German-speaking countries) An associate professor (in a university) who has obtained a doctorate, written a habilitation thesis and given a lecture in the hope of becoming a full professor.

plural of privat-docent

plural of private docent