Schoolmaster

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  • noun. A man who is a teacher.
  • noun. A grayish-brown snapper (Lutjanus apodus) of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A man who presides over or teaches a school; a man whose business it is to keep school.
  • noun. A common name of Lutianus apodus, a fish of the family Lutianidæ, found in the West Indies.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
  • noun. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The person in charge of a school.
  • verb. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. presiding officer of a school
  • noun. food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
  • noun. any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
    • Word Usage
    ""The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith, but _after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster_."
    cross-reference
    the schoolmaster is abroad  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    educator  pedagog  pedagogue  snapper  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barber  barrister  chaplain  clergyman  clerk  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abecedarian  certified teacher  docent  doctor  dominie  
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