headmaster
noun
the person in charge of a private school.
headmastership
-
a word derived from
headmaster.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
While a youthful Professor of Social Science at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., he was offered the headmastership shortly after his 27th birthday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When urbane Dwight Raymond Meigs resigned his headmastership in 1922 Mr. Wendell became treasurer of The Hill School.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon after he began teaching at the school in 1897, he coached the baseball team, an office which he kept up for eleven years of his headmastership.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kay got the offer of a headmastership at a small school in the north, and jumped at it.
From The Head of Kay's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
