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educator

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 JH AH0 K EY2 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: EH1 JH Y UW0 K EY2 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

someone who educates young people

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pedagogue, pedagog

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: professional, professional person

Narrower terms: academician, academic, faculty member, lector, lecturer, reader, principal, school principal, head teacher, head, schoolmaster, teacher, instructor, Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune, Braille, Louis Braille, Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Comenius, John Amos Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky, Dewey, John Dewey, Froebel, Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Hopkins, Mark Hopkins, Hutchins, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Laney, Lucy Craft Laney, Lowell, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Mann, Horace Mann, McGuffey, William Holmes McGuffey, Montessori, Maria Montesorri, Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Naismith, James Naismith, Orff, Carl Orff, Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman, Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Washington, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington, White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White, Willard, Emma Hart Willard, Witherspoon, John Witherspoon

History

Etymology

From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or.

Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُعَلِّم (muʕallim) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Arabic: مُؤَدِّب (muʔaddib) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Catalan: educador — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Catalan: educadora — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Chinese Mandarin: 教育家 (jiàoyùjiā) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Chinese Mandarin: 教育者 (jiàoyùzhě) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Finnish: opettaja — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Finnish: kasvattaja — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • French: éducateur — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • French: éducatrice — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Galician: educador — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Galician: educadora — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • German: Erzieher — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • German: Erzieherin — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Greek: εκπαιδευτικός (ekpaideftikós) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Hindi: शिक्षक (śikṣak) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Hungarian: pedagógus — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Japanese: 教育者 (kyōikusha) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Japanese: 教育家 (kyōikuka) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Korean: 교육자 (gyoyukja) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Korean: 교육가 (gyoyukga) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Latin: ēducātor — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Latin: ēducātrīx — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Māori: kaiwhakaako — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Māori: kaiako — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Persian: مؤدب (mo'addeb) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Portuguese: educador — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Portuguese: educadora — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Romanian: educator — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Romanian: educatoare — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Russian: педаго́г (pedagóg) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Russian: наста́вник (nastávnik) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Russian: наста́вница (nastávnica) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Spanish: educador — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Spanish: educadora — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Swahili: muelimishaji — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Swedish: undervisare — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Swedish: utbildare — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
  • Tajik: муъаддиб (mu'addib) — person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher
Real reading context

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