educator

[ ej-oo-key-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
2. an educationist.

educator

/ ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtə /

noun

1. a person who educates; teacher
2. a specialist in education; educationalist
3. (in South Africa) a school teacher

Word History and Origins

Origin of educator¹

1560–70; < Latin ēducātor, equivalent to ēducā ( re ) ( educate ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Barrera’s comment was an admission of a significant, existing inequity and how it may be addressed by providing access to educators outside a student’s neighborhood.

From Voice of San Diego

Now, with Zoom instruction a necessity, I devoted myself to becoming the very best online educator I could be.

From MIT Technology Review

Businesses, publishers, creators and educators can determine whether they’re eligible here.

From Search Engine Land

This is not to detract from the role of the educator but simply to observe the numerous resources that students will have no matter the learning format.

From Voice of San Diego

The educators were saying, “We will still teach your children, it will just be online.”

From Voice of San Diego

Won't release the name of the educator whose assignment is called outrageous.

From The Daily Beast

Banks, who has spent nearly three decades as an educator, has a book on education reform coming out in September entitled “Soar”.

From The Daily Beast

As an educator, I just try to educate people, so that they know how they need to see the world as science has come to reveal it.

From The Daily Beast

Tolbert works as a peer health educator but is paid so little that he qualifies for public supports.

From The Daily Beast

Oh, and Kent Knappenberger, the first ever recipient of the Music Educator Award, has a glorious beard.

From The Daily Beast

The educator cannot even count on being at all times able to safeguard the child from the sight of sexual acts.

From Project Gutenberg

Such stimuli are continuously in operation, and the best educator has no power to exclude their influence.

From Project Gutenberg

The most important requirement of all is certainly a good educator—a word used here in the widest possible signification.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. McCluskey was an eminent scholar, an able preacher, a successful educator and a worthy man in all the walks of life.

From Project Gutenberg

The power of voluntary Renunciation is another power which the educator has to develop in the girl.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• educationist
• instructor
• lecturer
• professor
• schoolteacher