teacher
/ˈtiːtʃə
/noun
A person who teaches, especially in a school: a history teacher...
- On the first day of the new school year the teachers are crackling with enthusiasm.
- The crush you had on the history teacher was so obvious it could be seen a mile off.
- At the Catholic Junior School a teacher caned me for talking to the boy next to me.
Synonyms
educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, mistress, governess, educationalist, educationist;
supply teacher;
coach, trainer;
lecturer, professor, don, fellow, reader, academic;
guide, mentor, guru, counsellor;
sophist;
Scottish dominie;
Indian pandit
North American, chiefly derogatory schoolmarm
informal teach
British informal beak
Australian/New Zealand informal chalkie, schoolie
archaic doctor, schoolman, usher
rare preceptor
Derivatives
teacherly
- That's now my ideal of teacherly advocacy: The object of veneration is not the lecturer but the work of art.
- My own children always laugh at my teacherly impulses to say that the students should tell the teachers what is going on, but there it is.
- Yet the teacherly streak in Orwell - his calling to educate the unenlightened bourgeoisie - drove him further to investigate Britain's under-class.
Rhymes
- prohibiter
- prohibition
- prohibitionary
- prohibitionism
- Prohibitionist
- prohibition party
- prohibition state
- prohibitive
- prohibitively
- prohibitiveness
- prohibitor
- prohibitorily
- prohibitory
- prohormone
- pro indiviso
- pro-inflammatory
- proing
- proinsulin
- project
- projectedly
- projectile
- projectile point
- projectile theory
- projectile vomit
- projectile vomiting