Usually means: Experienced mentor guiding novice professionals.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word preceptor:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. preceptor: Merriam-Webster
  2. preceptor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preceptor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preceptor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preceptor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preceptor, preceptor: Wordnik
  7. preceptor: Wiktionary
  8. preceptor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. preceptor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. preceptor: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. preceptor: Dictionary.com
  12. Preceptor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Preceptor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. preceptor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. preceptor: Rhymezone
  16. Preceptor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. preceptor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. preceptor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. preceptor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. preceptor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Preceptor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preceptor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preceptor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. preceptor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. preceptor: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preceptor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preceptor)

▸ noun:  A teacher or tutor.
▸ noun:  (historical) The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar.
▸ noun:  (medicine, chiefly US) A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc.

Similar:
don, preceptee, præceptor, prepositor, prepostor, preceptorial, præpositor, prelectorship, praepositus, proctorship, more...

Opposite:
pupil, student, learner, apprentice

Phrases:
Imperial Preceptor, Grand Preceptor, Preceptor N3 Pup, more...

Adjectives:
spiritual, holy, old, former, religious, first, great, sub, royal, moral, learned

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Similar:
don, preceptee, præceptor, prepositor, prepostor, preceptorial, præpositor, prelectorship, praepositus, proctorship, more...

Opposite:
pupil, student, learner, apprentice

Phrases:
Imperial Preceptor, Grand Preceptor, Preceptor N3 Pup, more...

Adjectives:
spiritual, holy, old, former, religious, first, great, sub, royal, moral, learned

Colors:
    burgundy,     charcoal,     forest green,     maroon,     slate gray, more...



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