schoolmaster
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- presiding officer of a schoolSynonyms: headmastermaster
- any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
- food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic watersSynonyms: Lutjanus apodus
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Schoolmaster \School"mas`ter\, n.
1.The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. [1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
2.One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. [1913 Webster]
The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ.— Gal. iii. 24.[1913 Webster]