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schoolteacher

[ skool-tee-cher ]

noun

  1. a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.


schoolteacher

/ ˈskuːlˌtiːtʃə /

noun

  1. a person who teaches in a school


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Derived Forms

  • ˈschoolˌteaching, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolteacher1

First recorded in 1840–50; school 1 + teacher

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Example Sentences

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

She became a schoolteacher, but, as war erupted, began taking in kids abandoned or orphaned by the conflict.

John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience.

His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a preacher.

During the night, they come to a small village and arrive at a house where a schoolteacher lives with his son.

The schoolteacher has mixed these episodes with his teaching; he has nourished with them infantile imaginations.

Herbert Miller, the young schoolteacher, when he heard the demand made by Hank Sprowl, felt that he was in great danger.

The Prime Minister is a poor Welsh schoolteacher's son, without early education.

Yes, I see it too, and I will be a schoolteacher if we have to hold our first school in the open air.

Suddenly the schoolteacher rapped on the desk and bade us come to order and Ransom Walker was called to the chair.

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