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单词 instructor
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instructorn.

Brit. /ɪnˈstrʌktə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈstrəktər/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s instructour, 1500s enstructor, 1500s enstructour, 1500s instructoure, 1500s– instructor; also Scottish pre-1700 instructeur, pre-1700 instructoure.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin instructor.
Etymology: < classical Latin instructor person who equips or arranges, in post-classical Latin also teacher (5th cent. in Augustine) < instruct- , past participial stem of instruere instruct v. + -or -or suffix.Compare Middle French, French instructeur (14th cent.), Catalan instructor (late 15th cent.), Spanish instructor (end of the 14th cent.), Italian istruttore (1653; 15th cent. as †instruttore ). With the formal variation in the first syllable, compare forms at instruct v. In form instructeur after Middle French instructeur.
1. A person who instructs; a teacher, (now) esp. of a practical skill. Also figurative and in extended use.riding instructor, ski instructor, yoga instructor, etc.: see the first element.Formerly common in the titles of handbooks, periodicals, etc.; see e.g. quots. 1636, 1728, 1845.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun]
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lore-fatherc1175
lerera1340
lister1377
loresman1377
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learner1382
teacherc1384
readera1387
lore-mastera1400
former1401
informer?c1422
preceptorc1450
instructora1464
informator1483
doctrinal?1504
lear-father1533
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instructer1534
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educator1609
instituter1670
institutorc1675
subpreceptor1696
Barbe1710
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preception1882
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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 204 Þei were principal instructoures of heretikes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Ep. Ded. sig. A.iiiv Maister Gyles Dewes somtyme instructour to your noble grace in this selfe tong.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 53 The most famous instructor of children.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. ii. Thus hath she taught them who had no other instructor, with dislike and disdaine to admire at such immanity & inhumanity.
1636 J. Crawshey (title) The country mans instructor. Or, A briefe and plaine method of intelligence.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxvi Horace is somewhat the better Instructor of the two... His Instructions are more general: Juvenal's more limited.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 32 The Spirit is the secret Instructor.
1728 (title) The universal instructor in all arts and sciences.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. Pref. p. v He thus ranges without an instructor, confused and with sickening curiosity from subject to subject.
1845 (title) Hogg's weekly instructor.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 77 §13 A permanent staff, consisting of an officer, and of so many seamen instructors as may seem fit.
1948 N.Y. Times 26 Nov. 22/7 Experience is the best instructor of the intellect.
1986 Ebony July 118/2 Make arrangements for formal driving lessons from a licensed instructor.
2014 T. Hoyle Spiders xiv. 91 Their instructor was a young woman..in a black and blue ski-school outfit.
2. In North America and some other regions: a college or university teacher ranking below a professor; spec. one ranking directly below an assistant professor.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > teacher in American universities
instructor1722
docent1880
1722 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 232 Voted..that Mr. Judah Monis be improved as an instructor of the Hebrew language in the College.
1835 Amer. Ann. Educ. 5 101 Each of the professors of Mathematics, of Rhetoric, of Latin, and of Greek, is assisted by an instructor.
1891 Univ. Chicago Official Bull. i. 11 Lecturers and teachers..shall be classified as follows: (1) The Head Professor. (2) The Professor. (3) The Professor, Non-Resident. (4) The Associate Professor. (5) The Assistant Professor. (6) The Instructor. [etc.].
1947 Partisan Rev. 14 474 The academic hierarchy, from instructor up to full professor, enforces caution on the imaginative or adventurous thinker.
2007 New Yorker 8 Jan. 70/3 He rose quickly to the position of instructor, then professor, then vice-rector.

Derivatives

inˈstructorship n. the office, position, or function of instructor (esp. in sense 2).
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > office of
mastership1581
preceptorship1753
instructorship1821
tutorism1844
teachership1846
masterhood1864
1821 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 486/1 Further proof of the public instructorship of Homer might be shown from the temples, &c. in his honour.
1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2344 Recently the instructorship has been changed to a professorship.
1989 Yoga Jrnl. July 117/1 (advt.) Hatha Yoga classes for beginning to advanced, and instructorship training.
2009 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. a28 Harvard offered him an instructorship, which he accepted, but a month later M.I.T. invited him to become an assistant professor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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