My driving instructor says I should be more patient.
Source: tatoeba (19004)
Instructor
//ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ//
Synonyms for "instructor" (97 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (48)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesMore specific
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
4 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
92 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- διδάσκαλος noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- κατηχητής noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Arabic
2 entries- مُعَلِّم noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- مُعَلِّمَة noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Belarusian
2 entries- інстру́ктар noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- інстру́ктарка noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Bengali
2 entries- মুয়াল্লিম noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- মুর্শিদ noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Bulgarian
1 entries- инстру́ктор noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Catalan
1 entries- instructor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Chechen
1 entries- хьехархо noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 教練 /教练 noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Czech
1 entries- instruktor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Danish
1 entries- instruktør noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Dutch
4 entries- instructeur noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instructrice noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- leermeester noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- leermeesteres noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Estonian
1 entries- instruktor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Finnish
3 entries- kouluttaja noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- ohjaaja noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- opettaja noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
French
2 entries- instructeur noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instructrice noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Galician
1 entries- instrutor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
German
4 entries- Ausbilder noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- Ausbilderin noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- Dozent noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- Dozentin noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Greek
4 entries- δάσκαλος noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- δασκάλα noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- διδάσκαλος noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- διδασκάλισσα noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Hungarian
2 entries- oktató noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- tanár noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Italian
2 entries- insegnante noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- istruttore noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Japanese
2 entries- インストラクター noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- 教師 noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Kalmyk
1 entries- зааһач noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Korean
2 entries- 강사 noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- 교사 noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- нускоочу noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Latin
3 entries- docens noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- praeceptor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- praeceptrix noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- instruktrise noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktør noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktørinne noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- instruktrise noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktør noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Persian
3 entries- آموزگار noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- مدرس noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- معلم noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Polish
2 entries- instruktor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktorka noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Portuguese
4 entries- instructor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instructora noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instrutor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instrutora noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Romanian
2 entries- instructoare noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instructor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Russian
4 entries- инстру́ктор noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- инстру́кторша noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- преподава́тель noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- преподава́тельница noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Spanish
2 entries- instructor noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instructora noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Swedish
4 entries- handledare noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- handledarinna noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktris noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- instruktör noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Tagalog
2 entries- Dtro. noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- dalubturo noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Tajik
2 entries- муаллим noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- омӯзгор noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Thai
1 entries- อาจารย์ noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Ukrainian
2 entries- інстру́ктор noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
- інстру́кторка noun (one who instructs; a teacher)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The instructor advised me to get exercise every day.
Source: tatoeba (19077)
The piano instructor was hard on her.
Source: tatoeba (49988)
You may as well know that I am a strict instructor.
Source: tatoeba (250657)
Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.