schoolteacher
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of schoolteacher
Example Sentences
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He graduated from Alabama State College in 1960 with a bachelor’s in music and worked briefly as a schoolteacher before beginning his professional music career.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
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
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
Robinson, the schoolteacher, said he will be watching gas prices every day now.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
A family could indeed walk proudly if a son married the schoolteacher.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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