noun
Meaning 1
A male headteacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: principal
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
headmaster
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: /ˈhɛdˌmæstɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌmɑːstə/
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rhymes with -æstə(ɹ)
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rhymes with -ɑːstə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 D M AE1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
presiding officer of a school
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: schoolmaster, master
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: principal, school principal, head teacher, head
Narrower terms: housemaster
History
Etymology
From head + master.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُدِير (mudīr) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Belarusian: дырэ́ктар (dyréktar) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Bulgarian: дире́ктор (diréktor) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Chinese Mandarin: 校長 /校长 (xiàozhǎng) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Czech: ředitel — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Dutch: schoolhoofd — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Finnish: rehtori — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Finnish: johtajaopettaja — the most senior master in a school (male)
- French: directeur — the most senior master in a school (male)
- French: principal (collège) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- French: proviseur (lycée) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- German: Schulleiter — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Greek: διευθυντής (diefthyntís) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Greenlandic: atuarfiit pisortaat — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Greenlandic: atuarfiup pisortaa — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Hebrew: מְנַהֵל (menahél) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Hindi: प्राचार्य (prācārya) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Hindi: मुख्याध्यापक (mukhyādhyāpak) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Hungarian: igazgató — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Hungarian: iskolaigazgató — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Icelandic: skólastjóri — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Indonesian: kepala sekolah — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Irish: uachtarán — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Irish: ardmháistir — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Italian: preside — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Japanese: 校長 (kōchō) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Korean: 교장 (gyojang) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Macedonian: дире́ктор (diréktor) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Manx: ard-vainshtyr — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Manx: ard-ynseyder — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Manx: ard-er-ynsee — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Marathi: मुख्याध्यापक (mukhyādhyāpak) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Marathi: प्राचार्य (prācārya) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Norwegian Bokmål: skoleleder — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Polish: dyrektor — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Portuguese: diretor — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Romanian: director — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Russian: дире́ктор (diréktor) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Serbo-Croatian: дѝректор — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Serbo-Croatian: ра̀внатељ — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Serbo-Croatian: dìrektor — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Serbo-Croatian: ràvnatelj — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Slovak: riaditeľ — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Slovene: ravnatelj — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Spanish: director — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Swedish: rektor — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Thai: ครูใหญ่ (kruu-yài) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Ukrainian: дире́ктор (dyréktor) — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Vietnamese: hiệu trưởng — the most senior master in a school (male)
- Welsh: prifathro — the most senior master in a school (male)
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