schoolmaster
11
5.5
- noun
- /ˈskuːlˌmæstər/
- UK
:
maestro
- Your father was a schoolmaster.
- village schoolmaster
- an old schoolmaster
Examples
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When he left the next morning, the doctor, the blacksmith, and the schoolmaster rode away with him.
Fiction book (2002) -
He's a schoolmaster, you know.
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Are you supposed to be a schoolmaster?
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I'm very happy as a schoolmaster.
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I met the schoolmaster from Gerakari.
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Each cannot be a professor, lawyer, doctor, preacher, or schoolmaster.
Academic text (2010) -
Well, he's the village schoolmaster, and I know he can lip-read.
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The real Aram, a schoolmaster in the village of Knaresborough, achieved local renown as a gifted scholar.
Academic text (2016) -
Protestant clergymen and schoolmasters were notable among the newcomers from Ireland, while even fewer Irish Catholics came.
Academic text (1991) -
The schoolmaster at the local school introduced new programs to improve student learning.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person who gives lessons to students in a school or college
∞
3.7
A person in charge of a group or place
82
1.0
A person who helps children or teenagers learn at school
69
3.2
A person who runs a school, often a private school
61
1.0
A person who works at a school and helps children learn
23
2.5
A person who runs a school and leads the teachers
1
3.2
A person who leads a school and is responsible for its teachers and students
Antonyms
How Senior
481
3.6
- UK
1
3.2
- UK
11
5.5
- US
32
3.9
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Schoolmaster comes from the simple joining of school and master, where master means 'teacher' or 'head'. So it named the person who ran the school, which is why it means a male head teacher or principal.