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schoolteacher

American  
[skool-tee-cher] / ˈskulˌti tʃər /

noun

  1. a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.

schoolteacher British  
/ ˈskuːlˌtiːtʃə /

noun

  1. a person who teaches in a school

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Other Word Forms

  • schoolteaching noun

Etymology

Origin of schoolteacher

First recorded in 1840–50; school 1 + teacher

Example Sentences

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Rosemary, the schoolteacher in her 40s, pleads with her suitor, Howard, to marry her not out of romance, but desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal

He’s a frustrated, flunked-out rock star; she’s a schoolteacher who loves the Spice Girls.

From Los Angeles Times

In Jonathan Miles’s “Eradication: A Fable,” a schoolteacher who has never held a gun in his life signs up to cull 3,000 invasive goats on a remote island.

From The Wall Street Journal

Point being, Black wrote Charly Baltimore as a heroine unlike most of the ones seen previously — a sweet, happy schoolteacher who happened to have a pragmatic world-class killer sleeping inside her.

From Salon

Dubbed Peru's first poor president, Castillo, a former trade unionist and rural schoolteacher, won power in 2021 on a wave of frustration with conventional politics.

From BBC

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