schoolteacher
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- schoolteaching noun
Etymology
Origin of schoolteacher
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
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
"I knew my husband is strong and can endure. I didn't react at all -- I just kept praying and repeating in my heart that nothing bad would happen to him," the 32-year-old schoolteacher said.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
In the country the repository of art and science was the school, and the schoolteacher shielded and carried the torch of learning and of beauty.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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