schoolmaster
noun
a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
schoolmastering
-
a word derived from
schoolmaster.
Example Sentences
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Finally, with an agility that left many a churchman popeyed, Fisher in 1932 stepped directly from 21 years of schoolmastering into the Bishopric of Chester.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was out of print when it was discovered by American college youth, who sent paperback sales to 2,000,000 and emancipated Golding from any more schoolmastering.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a fussy, solitary man who at 41 retired from schoolmastering with the solemn announcement: "My dear fellow, I'm not going to do anything useful again."
From Time Magazine Archive
At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
In the space of two years, Carlyle and Irving 'got tired of schoolmastering and its mean contradictions and poor results.'
From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Hector Carsewell Macpherson
