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teacher

[ tee-cher ]

noun

  1. a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.


teacher

/ ˈtiːtʃə /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is teaching others, esp children
  2. a personified concept that teaches

    nature is a good teacher



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Derived Forms

  • ˈteacherless, adjective

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Other Words From

  • teacher·less adjective
  • teacher·ship noun
  • non·teacher noun
  • self-teacher noun
  • under·teacher noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teacher1

First recorded in 1250–1300, teacher is from the Middle English word techer. See teach, -er 1

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Example Sentences

If you’re a teacher, you can discuss this issue with your students, who may influence their parents.

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In that case, you might have heard of Aaron Orendorf, a philosophy teacher, who used guest posting to catapult himself into prominence in the marketing world.

In classrooms, she says, teachers and students sometimes feel pressured to be working all the time.

The current plan in New York is for just 10 to 20 percent of students and teachers to be tested once a month.

Plus, students are likely to have to do more without a teacher or parent looking over their shoulders.

Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

When one is a teacher, one confronts this issue all the time.

Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.

He might have been an insufferable young man for a poverty-stricken teacher of French to have as a fellow-lodger; but he was not.

I saw at a glance that Deppe is a magnificent teacher, and I believe that he has originated a school of his own.

You would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.

It is often convenient for a teacher, and others, to recall the number of a page of a book in which a citation is found.

One teacher has re-arranged Series in Foreign Grammars in such a manner that he finds a natural suggestiveness between the words.

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