schoolteacher

[ skool-tee-cher ]

/ ˈskulˌti tʃər /

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noun

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

Nearby words

schoolmaster, schoolmate, schoolmistress, schoolroom, schools, schoolteacher, schoolteacherish, schoolteaching, schoolwork, schoolyard, schooner

Origin of schoolteacher

First recorded in 1840–50; school¹ + teacher

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Examples from the Web for schoolteacher

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?
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She became a schoolteacher, but, as war erupted, began taking in kids abandoned or orphaned by the conflict.
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John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience.
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His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a preacher.
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During the night, they come to a small village and arrive at a house where a schoolteacher lives with his son.
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The country minister and schoolteacher must therefore become prophets of the intellect and of the spirit, in the new order.
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For some time both in her school and church work Belle had been much associated with John Lowe, the schoolteacher.
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Could he say that he had become very much interested in studying a schoolteacher—a very charming school-teacher?
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And there was a show about a schoolteacher and her class of angelic little tots that almost brought Yetsko's lunch up.
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One of these, a schoolteacher, hired him to drive her to the various points of interest around the country.
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British Dictionary definitions for schoolteacher

schoolteacher

/ (ˈskuːlˌtiːtʃə) /

noun

a person who teaches in a school

Derived Forms

schoolteaching, noun

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schoolteacher

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British Dictionary definitions for schoolteacher

schoolteacher

noun

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