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Schoolmaster

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A male teacher.
  2. 2
    food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters wordnet
  3. 3
    A male teacher.; A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
  4. 4
    presiding officer of a school wordnet
  5. 5
    Anything that teaches. figuratively

    "The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians."

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  1. 6
    any person (or institution) who acts as an educator wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

Etymology 2

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

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