schoolteacher
[skool-tee-cher]
Origin of schoolteacher
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Contemporary Examples
Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?
She became a schoolteacher, but, as war erupted, began taking in kids abandoned or orphaned by the conflict.
John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience.
His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a preacher.
During the night, they come to a small village and arrive at a house where a schoolteacher lives with his son.
Inside ‘Maidan’: Sergei Loznitsa on His Ukrainian Uprising Doc and Putin’s ‘Fascist’ RegimeRichard Porton
May 24, 2014
Historical Examples
When the schoolteacher's turn shall come, then let tyranny and bigotry beware.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
We thought you was only a schoolteacher, wrapped up in rhymes and birds!
The Flockmaster of Poison CreekGeorge W. Ogden
It was something for a schoolteacher, counted a mild and childlike man.
The Flockmaster of Poison CreekGeorge W. Ogden
He married again—a schoolteacher, and it wasn't a year, quite, after—the earthquake.
Elsie Marley, HoneyJoslyn Gray
Bitterly she denied unto herself that she was really a schoolteacher.
The RainbowD. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
schoolteacher
- a person who teaches in a school
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