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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • schoolteaching noun

Etymology

Origin of schoolteacher

First recorded in 1840–50; school 1 + teacher

Example Sentences

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Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Princess Juliet Jombo says properties built by her late father, a traditional ruler, were reduced to rubble.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

At around 11 p.m. on a rainy night, Sukraj Rai, 42, a schoolteacher in Rangpo Forest, began getting frantic calls warning him that the Teesta was rising and that the Chungthang dam had broken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The second part honors David Rhys Jones, a schoolteacher at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi in Cardigan, Wales, who taught the study's lead author.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Recently married, his new uncle was a schoolteacher.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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