schoolmaster
NounUS[skool-mas-ter]/ˈskulˌmæstɚ/3 syllables
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Noun (3)
- presiding officer of a schoolSynonyms: headmastermasterType of principal, manKinds housemaster
- any person (or institution) who acts as an educatorType of educator, pedagogue
- food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic watersSynonyms: Lutjanus apodusType of snapperMember of Lutjanus, genus Lutjanus
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
School′mas′ter noun
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
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.— Lord Henry Brougham
2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ.— Gal. iii. 24.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54