docent• At the J Paul Getty museum in Malibu, a docent was giving her usualtour.• The inside is completely restored, and visitors can sit in the old desks while a docentexplains early school days.• The twice-a-week free tours are narrated by museum docents.• He had been offered the position of docent at the University of Warsaw.• She's a volunteerdocent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Origindocent
(1800-1900)GermanLatin, present participle of docere“to teach”