noun
Meaning 1
A male teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
schoolmaster
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: /ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/
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CMU ARPABET: S K UW1 L M AE2 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A male teacher.
A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Anything that teaches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 4
To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.
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noun
Meaning 5
food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: snapper
noun
Meaning 6
presiding officer of a school
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: headmaster, master
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: principal, school principal, head teacher, head
Narrower terms: housemaster
noun
Meaning 7
any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: educator, pedagogue, pedagog
History
Etymology
From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: учител (učitel) — male teacher
- Bulgarian: преподавател (prepodavatel) — male teacher
- Estonian: koolmeister — male teacher
- Finnish: koulumestari — male teacher
- French: maître d'école — male teacher
- German: Schulmeister — male teacher
- Greek: δάσκαλος (dáskalos) — male teacher
- Hungarian: iskolai tanár — male teacher
- Japanese: 教諭 — male teacher
- Japanese: 教員 — male teacher
- Japanese: 教師 — male teacher
- Japanese: 講師 — male teacher
- Japanese: 教官 — male teacher
- Sindhi: ماسْترُ (māstru) — male teacher
- Thai: อาจารย์ (aa-jaan) — male teacher
- Welsh: meistr — male teacher
- Welsh: meistr ysgol — male teacher
- Finnish: johtajaopettaja — male teacher in charge of a small school
- Greek: διευθυντής (diefthyntís) — male teacher in charge of a small school
- Hungarian: iskolaigazgató — male teacher in charge of a small school
- Japanese: 先生 — male teacher in charge of a small school
- Japanese: 講師 — male teacher in charge of a small school
- Bulgarian: учител (učitel) — anything that teaches
- Finnish: opettaja — anything that teaches
- Hungarian: tanító — anything that teaches
- Japanese: 教員 — anything that teaches
- Japanese: 教官 — anything that teaches
- Japanese: 講師 — anything that teaches
- Japanese: 先生 — anything that teaches
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