geometry teacher
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- noun
- /dʒiˈɑːmətri ˈtiːtʃər/
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profesor de geometría
- Sylvia Hirsch, who purposefully sobbed until her high school geometry teacher raised her grade to the level required for admission to the University of California at Berkeley, knew that her acceptance into the Torch and Shield campus honor society was unusual for a Jewish girl.
- a high school geometry teacher
- a school geometry teacher
Examples
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I had a geometry teacher tell me I passed because he was friends with my dad, and I would never be able to get it.
Blog text (26) -
But just because we don't understand Him and have irrational assumptions about what He's communicating to us, like middle-school girls have about their cute geometry teachers, doesn't mean that we have gotten to know a completely different person than Jesus.
Blog text (31) -
I remember that my geometry teacher used to write at the top of my tests, in giant capital letters, SHOW YOUR WORK!
Blog text (32) -
As my geometry teacher used to say, 'It shows what you can do, Miss Frawley, when you put your mind to it.'
Fiction book (1991) -
I've had other teachers (like my first geometry teacher) who just threw some notes on the board and said, "Okay, copy this down."
Blog text (13) -
It reminded Dan of the look that his geometry teacher would give him back in high school when he went off on the wrong tangent.
Fiction book (2001) -
My geometry teacher encouraged us to explore different methods to solve problems.
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The geometry teacher assigned a project that required us to create a scale model of our school.
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Every Friday, my geometry teacher would give us a quiz to test our understanding of the week's lessons.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'geometry' (the subject) modifies 'teacher' (a person who teaches), so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it denotes a teacher who teaches geometry. This noun–noun modification pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition, making it immediately understandable.
Etymology
Geometry teacher comes from the word geometry, which originally meant 'measuring the earth' because people used its ideas to measure land and shapes. So a geometry teacher is simply a teacher who shows students how to work with shapes, sizes, and space, which is why it means 'a teacher who specializes in geometry'.