educator
Americannoun
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educators
plural
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a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
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an educationist.
noun
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a person who educates; teacher
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a specialist in education; educationalist
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(in South Africa) a school teacher
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of educator
1560–70; < Latin ēducātor, equivalent to ēducā ( re ) ( see educate) + -tor -tor
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A renowned traditional Irish musician and educator who died following a road crash in County Armagh has been described by a Sinn Féin MP as a "giant of Irish cultural life".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The study involved 20 healthy adults who participated in a 7-day residential program led by neuroscience educator and author Joe Dispenza, D.C.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
“I am a career educator and strong believer in public education,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
During a recent AI training session for educators in South Carolina, an AI-generated world map misspelled Mali as “Mail,” labeled Egypt “Sopth” and replaced Libya with a country simply called “Africa.”
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Texas Instruments teamed up with math educators and textbook publishers to create an ecosystem for teacher training programs and instruction materials that would seamlessly standardize TI across American classrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
"We have decided to provide free online coaching for various competitive examinations for our youth. We have the digital public infrastructure, and we have highly talented teachers and educators," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
For children and schools to succeed, educators and parents should be on the same team, each fulfilling their role for the benefit of the child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
When educators promised to open their schools, it was partly because they couldn’t imagine another response; their schools were rooted in the belief that higher education should be available to all.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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