headmaster
noun
the person in charge of a private school.
headmastership
-
a word derived from
headmaster.
Example Sentences
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For five years before being called to the headmastership of St. Mark's, he taught at Groton School, old-lime St. Mark's rival.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took the headmastership of a school endowed by his father, entered Congress as a New Dealer in 1936.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1916 he went to Yale as professor of Latin, resigned three years later to accept the Lawrenceville headmastership.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Gamage relinquished the headmastership of St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y., after 14 years' tenure, took with him three close associates, founded the Pawling School in 1908.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr. Arnold had to face a good deal of opposition.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
