Ascham

American  

[as-kuhm] / ˈæs kəm /

noun

1. Roger, 1515–68, English scholar and writer: tutor of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Ascham British  

/ ˈæskəm /

noun

1. Roger. ?1515–68, English humanist writer and classical scholar: tutor to Queen Elizabeth I

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Example Sentences

Reporters discovered that Roberts had checked in at Sydney's swanky Glen Ascham Hotel under an assumed name.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ascham, an exclusive private girls' school in Sydney's east, endured a public row earlier in the year when a group of its high-flying parents demanded a greater say in the school council's choice of headmistress.

From Time Magazine Archive

I. The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham, is a work so celebrated and so classical, and has been so often reprinted, that it seems almost supererogatory to pass any remark upon its character and merits.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

But this kind of experience was too common; and it had its advocates even outside the professional pale: for Lord Burleigh, as we learn from Ascham, was on the side of the disciplinarians.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

Ascham, whose constitutional delicacy often impeded his studies, died prematurely.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac