[syn: schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Schoolmaster \School"mas`ter\, n.
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male
teacher of a school.
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Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do
nothing in this age. There is another personage
abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of
some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer,
against the soldier in full military array.
--Brougham.
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2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
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The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto
Christ. --Gal. iii.
24.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
schoolmaster
n 1: presiding officer of a school [syn: headmaster,
schoolmaster, master]
2: any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
3: food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters [syn:
schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus]