BODLTAmerican EnglishAmE someone who guides visitors through a museum, church etc 〔博物馆、教堂等的〕向导，讲解员
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docent• At the J Paul Getty museum in Malibu, a docent was giving her usual tour.• The inside is completely restored, and visitors can sit in the old desks while a docent explains 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 volunteer docent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Origindocent
(1800-1900)GermanLatin, present participle of docere“to teach”