preceptor

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈpɹiːˌsɛptəɹ/

Noun

preceptor (plural preceptors)

1. A teacher or tutor. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 64:

     A man who had thought so much on the subjects of language and education was surely no ordinary preceptor.

2. The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar. [from 15th c.]
3. (medicine, chiefly, US) A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc. [from 19th c.]

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