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noun
A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
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noun
A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Qualifier: Ancient Greece
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verb
To teach.
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noun
someone who educates young people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: educator, pedagog
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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
From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogue.
Across languages
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