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teacher

[ tee-cher ]

noun

  1. a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.


teacher

/ ˈtiːtʃə /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is teaching others, esp children
  2. a personified concept that teaches

    nature is a good teacher



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Derived Forms

  • ˈteacherless, adjective

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Other Words From

  • teacher·less adjective
  • teacher·ship noun
  • non·teacher noun
  • self-teacher noun
  • under·teacher noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teacher1

First recorded in 1250–1300, teacher is from the Middle English word techer. See teach, -er 1

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Example Sentences

Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

When one is a teacher, one confronts this issue all the time.

Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.

He might have been an insufferable young man for a poverty-stricken teacher of French to have as a fellow-lodger; but he was not.

I saw at a glance that Deppe is a magnificent teacher, and I believe that he has originated a school of his own.

You would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.

It is often convenient for a teacher, and others, to recall the number of a page of a book in which a citation is found.

One teacher has re-arranged Series in Foreign Grammars in such a manner that he finds a natural suggestiveness between the words.

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