teacher

pronunciation

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Noun:

a person whose occupation is teaching
a personified abstraction that teaches

Word Origin

teacher (n.): "one who teaches," c. 1300; agent noun from teach (v.). It was used earlier in a sense of "index finger" (late 13c.). Teacher's pet attested from 1856.

Synonym

n.

inculcator minister missionary demonstrator rabbi apostle parson propagandist moralizer indoctrinator catechist propagator sermonizer priest preacher

n.

tutor schoolmaster coach schoolman pedagogue faculty doctor gownsman schoolmarm don instructor lecturer academician trainer professor schoolteacher member schoolmistress preceptor educator gurn master mentor educationist

n.

paragon exemplar example ideal pattern model

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expositor explicator glossator explainer interpreter counsellor guide docent expounder cicerone advisor annotator mentor

Example

1. I am also a ballet teacher .

2. It does not seem to be teacher pay .

3. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life .

4. Shoun became a teacher of soto zen .

5. Detroit elects its youngest mayor , 31-year-old former elementary school teacher kwame kilpatrick .

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