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

His grandfathers worked as a railroad cook and a schoolteacher.

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His mother was a schoolteacher and his father operated a linotype when he wasn’t unemployed.

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“We do love Halloween, and we plan typically many months in advance,” said Binning, a schoolteacher from Pittsburgh.

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You say, “She was a single mother and a schoolteacher on her day off. She invited me to her apartment, and I watched her pay the babysitter.”

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She plays a lonely schoolteacher named Theresa Dunn who engages in increasingly risky behavior with strangers in pursuit of love.

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