schoolteacher

[skool-tee-cher]

noun

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

schoolteacher

/ ˈskuːlˌtiːtʃə /

noun

1. a person who teaches in a school

Other Word Forms

• schoolteaching noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolteacher¹

First recorded in 1840–50; school ¹ + teacher

Example Sentences

Many players were introduced to the sport through schoolteachers, disability organisations, or community camps.

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“She conducted herself like a schoolteacher,” said Jack Brammer, a longtime political commentator in Kentucky, “and we reporters were like her students.”

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What was the schoolteacher doing at our house?

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Although he was not particularly impressed with the old objects, he took them home, where they remained unnoticed for months until Choi’s schoolteacher brother came to pay a visit.

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He was a terrible misanthrope, complaining that the villagers of Puchberg in Austria, where he worked as a schoolteacher in the early 1920s, were “1/4 animal and 3/4 human.”

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