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Webster 1913 Edition
Schoolmaster
School′masˊter
,Noun.
1.
The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, – a person less imposing, – in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The
schoolmaster
is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.
2.
One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
The law was our
schoolmaster
, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
Webster 1828 Edition
Schoolmaster
SCHOOL'MASTER
,Noun.
1.
The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]Adrian VI. was sometime schoolmaster to Charles V.
2.
He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Gal. 3.
Definition 2024
schoolmaster
schoolmaster
English
Noun
schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)
- A male teacher.
- Male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
- Anything that teaches.
- The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
Derived terms
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Translations
male teacher in charge of a small school
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Verb
schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)
- To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.