Word Meanings - SCHOOLMASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: SCHOOLMASTER

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 into Christ. Gal. iii. 24.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCHOOLMASTER)

• Preceptor
• Master
• teacher
• pedagogue
• tutor
• instructor
• schoolmaster
• Teacher
• Instructor
• preceptor
• professor
• educationist
• educator
• schoolmistress

Related words: (words related to SCHOOLMASTER)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• TUTOR
  One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically: -- A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman. One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. A private
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• TUTORISM
  Tutorship.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• EDUCATOR
  One who educates; a teacher.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• PRECEPTORY
  Preceptive. "A law preceptory." Anderson .
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• PRECEPTOR
  1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• MASTER
  A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
• TUTORY
  Tutorage. Holinshed.
• TUTORAGE
  The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• BETUTOR
  To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.