head teacher


noun
  1. a teacher responsible for running a school

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How to use head teacher in a sentence

  • From under-teacher she became head-teacher, and at eighteen passed as governess into a private family.

    In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
  • "You're home, children," the head teacher told us after we had gone into the glassite dome they'd built for us there.

    Keep Out | Fredric Brown
  • Here the county clerk half rose, but the head-teacher held him with his disciplining eye, and he sat down again.