educator
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of educator
1560–70; < Latin ēducātor, equivalent to ēducā ( re ) ( see educate) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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As a privacy, electronic surveillance and tech law attorney, author and legal educator, I have spent years researching, writing and advising about privacy and legal issues related to surveillance and data use.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Lagos-based special educator Chukwuemeka Chimdiebere says Nigeria has to step up efforts to address the needs of disabled people.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“He seems to have been called by every honorary title imaginable,” noted one biographer—“the country’s leading novelist, philosopher, educator, designer, agricultural experimenter, architect, industrial management specialist, general and ping pong trainer.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
“It’s not like war — there is no ‘conscientious objector’ status in the tax code,” said Hannah Cole, a tax educator who helps self-employed artists.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
And in many ways, the role that lay ahead of him that fall, as it did every fall, was that of an educator.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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