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单词 headmaster
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Definition of headmaster in English:

headmaster

noun hɛdˈmɑːstəˌhɛdˈmæstər
British
  • A man who is the head teacher in a school.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And like at school, the headmaster and his associates want to make sure everyone is on best behaviour.
    • The students were mostly of revolutionary stock while most of the teachers, especially the headmaster, were royalists.
    • I talked to her teachers and the headmaster, but although they were sympathetic, they didn't seem interested.
    • Born in Lancashire, the son of the headmaster of Ripon Grammar School, Peter studied art at Leeds School of Art.
    • There is a program on which we are working, but we still need support to make this program workable, to make headmasters accept easily those little girls in their schools, even though they will not pay school fees.
    • That night we had dinner with the headmaster and vice headmasters (1 school president and 3 vice presidents).
    • I learned from Ted who guided me like a patient headmaster leading a purblind orphan around a country fair.
    • Sketch themes include sub-literate headmasters, a prime ministerial aid who has a crush on his boss, cross-dressing, and this guy whom I liked if only for his over-the-top Welsh accent.
    • When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
    • The chatter gradually died down, and all turned to look at R.A.'s headmaster.
    • Most of the school teachers and headmasters were trained in Great Britain and exposed to the British Scouting Movement and to Outward Bound programs.
    • He was apparently a horrible student but now he's headmaster so that just goes to show the high standards of this school!
    • I practically have my own chair waiting outside the headmaster's office.
    • At that moment Mr Hill's active and fulfilling life as a headmaster of a leading secondary school senselessly ended.
    • I really enjoyed it and it was wonderful meeting my old headmaster and old class teacher.
    • The documentary, besides focusing on the history of the institution, which has over 4,000 boys on its rolls, also includes interfaces with former teachers, headmasters and old boys of the institution.
    • Congratulations to the headmaster and teachers for staging the event, it was magical.
    • Since I'm on the ground as it were, I've direct access to many of the headmasters, teachers, and senior exponents of these disciplines.
    • I am a private school headmaster, and this has been a problem for a couple of years now.
    • Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed.
    • Pettigrew studied the role of the founding headmaster of a private British boarding school.
    • These schools will be getting some new furniture for the teachers and the headmasters' offices.
    • It could perfectly well be a professor of divinity, or the headmaster of a public school.
    • But later, the headmaster actually went into the bin and put all the pieces together!
    • The students and the headmaster at the boys-only grammar school backed his stand.
    • The headmaster of Settle High School criticised parents who kept their distance from the school.
    • To make matters worse, the school belonged to a ghastly, gruesome headmaster named Mr Dowd.
    • An emergency meeting of Skipton school headmasters and managers met to discuss an outbreak of measles in the town.
    • Eight principals or headmasters were initially contacted.
    • We requested participation from the headmasters of the 40 selected schools, and 39 headmasters responded affirmatively.
    • It was further alleged that a council should be found vicariously liable for the negligence of a headmasters and teachers' advisory centre for not assessing and referring the cases concerned in the proper manner.
    • The creamy walls of both floors were lined with paintings of old headmasters and headmistresses, bowls of fruit, Paris operas, and fairy tale adventures.
    • James McHugh of Peabody was named headmaster at Savio Prep High School in East Boston.
    • High school headmasters have begun banning pants that cause potential exposure of the buttocks, such as loose and baggy jeans on boys and midriff-showing lowriders on girls.
    • The headmaster of the high school at that time was Munetaka Abe Sensei, a man of noble character and a patriot.
    • Regional party secretaries, headmasters and teachers were forced to wear placards confessing their crimes as a ‘counter-revolutionary revisionist element’.
    • Now all the naïve parents and teachers, including the headmasters and mistresses, can see what your ‘darling’ children are up too.
    • So far former teachers, headmasters and farmers have been interviewed for the project.
    • He put me down gently on my feet then held my hand as we went inside to meet the headmaster and the teachers.
    • However the headmaster of the High School that Alice attended was much less supportive.
    Synonyms
    leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman

Derivatives

  • headmasterly

  • adjective
    British
    • Archbishop of York David Hope wagged a headmasterly finger at one of his bishops yesterday and declared that the Church of England has no intention of abandoning the poor.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • David Warner is nicely sinister as Evil Incarnate, and Sir Ralph Richardson, that stately old figure, is a headmasterly Supreme Being.
      • If Guthrie wishes to be seen as having left the world of hemline journalism behind him, now is his heaven-made chance to demonstrate a headmasterly fairness and impartiality - one that is quite clearly beyond Marr and the boys.
      • But, even though she was reputed to be somewhat headmasterly over the usage of English, she had a charming and engaging social presence.
      • Under the headmasterly rule of His Excellency the Life President Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda (to give him his official moniker), Malawi was peaceful, tidy, friendly, and decidedly old-fashioned.

Rhymes

blaster, caster, castor, faster, grandmaster, master, pastor, plaster
 
 

Definition of headmaster in US English:

headmaster

nounˌhedˈmastərˌhɛdˈmæstər
British
  • (especially in private schools) the man in charge of a school; the principal.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These schools will be getting some new furniture for the teachers and the headmasters' offices.
    • I practically have my own chair waiting outside the headmaster's office.
    • But later, the headmaster actually went into the bin and put all the pieces together!
    • The headmaster of the high school at that time was Munetaka Abe Sensei, a man of noble character and a patriot.
    • I talked to her teachers and the headmaster, but although they were sympathetic, they didn't seem interested.
    • High school headmasters have begun banning pants that cause potential exposure of the buttocks, such as loose and baggy jeans on boys and midriff-showing lowriders on girls.
    • I am a private school headmaster, and this has been a problem for a couple of years now.
    • Pettigrew studied the role of the founding headmaster of a private British boarding school.
    • Most of the school teachers and headmasters were trained in Great Britain and exposed to the British Scouting Movement and to Outward Bound programs.
    • There is a program on which we are working, but we still need support to make this program workable, to make headmasters accept easily those little girls in their schools, even though they will not pay school fees.
    • The students were mostly of revolutionary stock while most of the teachers, especially the headmaster, were royalists.
    • I learned from Ted who guided me like a patient headmaster leading a purblind orphan around a country fair.
    • James McHugh of Peabody was named headmaster at Savio Prep High School in East Boston.
    • Now all the naïve parents and teachers, including the headmasters and mistresses, can see what your ‘darling’ children are up too.
    • Congratulations to the headmaster and teachers for staging the event, it was magical.
    • Sketch themes include sub-literate headmasters, a prime ministerial aid who has a crush on his boss, cross-dressing, and this guy whom I liked if only for his over-the-top Welsh accent.
    • It was further alleged that a council should be found vicariously liable for the negligence of a headmasters and teachers' advisory centre for not assessing and referring the cases concerned in the proper manner.
    • To make matters worse, the school belonged to a ghastly, gruesome headmaster named Mr Dowd.
    • The chatter gradually died down, and all turned to look at R.A.'s headmaster.
    • Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed.
    • And like at school, the headmaster and his associates want to make sure everyone is on best behaviour.
    • We requested participation from the headmasters of the 40 selected schools, and 39 headmasters responded affirmatively.
    • That night we had dinner with the headmaster and vice headmasters (1 school president and 3 vice presidents).
    • It could perfectly well be a professor of divinity, or the headmaster of a public school.
    • So far former teachers, headmasters and farmers have been interviewed for the project.
    • An emergency meeting of Skipton school headmasters and managers met to discuss an outbreak of measles in the town.
    • The headmaster of Settle High School criticised parents who kept their distance from the school.
    • However the headmaster of the High School that Alice attended was much less supportive.
    • At that moment Mr Hill's active and fulfilling life as a headmaster of a leading secondary school senselessly ended.
    • Eight principals or headmasters were initially contacted.
    • The students and the headmaster at the boys-only grammar school backed his stand.
    • The creamy walls of both floors were lined with paintings of old headmasters and headmistresses, bowls of fruit, Paris operas, and fairy tale adventures.
    • Regional party secretaries, headmasters and teachers were forced to wear placards confessing their crimes as a ‘counter-revolutionary revisionist element’.
    • He put me down gently on my feet then held my hand as we went inside to meet the headmaster and the teachers.
    • The documentary, besides focusing on the history of the institution, which has over 4,000 boys on its rolls, also includes interfaces with former teachers, headmasters and old boys of the institution.
    • When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
    • Born in Lancashire, the son of the headmaster of Ripon Grammar School, Peter studied art at Leeds School of Art.
    • He was apparently a horrible student but now he's headmaster so that just goes to show the high standards of this school!
    • I really enjoyed it and it was wonderful meeting my old headmaster and old class teacher.
    • Since I'm on the ground as it were, I've direct access to many of the headmasters, teachers, and senior exponents of these disciplines.
    Synonyms
    leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman
 
 
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