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educator

[ ej-oo-key-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.


educator

/ ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who educates; teacher
  2. a specialist in education; educationalist
  3. (in South Africa) a school teacher


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Word History and Origins

Origin of educator1

1560–70; < Latin ēducātor, equivalent to ēducā ( re ) ( educate ) + -tor -tor

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Example Sentences

Won't release the name of the educator whose assignment is called outrageous.

Banks, who has spent nearly three decades as an educator, has a book on education reform coming out in September entitled “Soar”.

As an educator, I just try to educate people, so that they know how they need to see the world as science has come to reveal it.

Tolbert works as a peer health educator but is paid so little that he qualifies for public supports.

Oh, and Kent Knappenberger, the first ever recipient of the Music Educator Award, has a glorious beard.

The educator cannot even count on being at all times able to safeguard the child from the sight of sexual acts.

Such stimuli are continuously in operation, and the best educator has no power to exclude their influence.

The most important requirement of all is certainly a good educator—a word used here in the widest possible signification.

Dr. McCluskey was an eminent scholar, an able preacher, a successful educator and a worthy man in all the walks of life.

The power of voluntary Renunciation is another power which the educator has to develop in the girl.

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