Word Meanings - SCHOOLMISTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCHOOLMISTRESS)

• Teacher
• Instructor
• schoolmaster
• preceptor
• tutor
• professor
• pedagogue
• educationist
• educator
• schoolmistress

Related words: (words related to SCHOOLMISTRESS)

• 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
• TUTORISM
  Tutorship.
• 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 .
• 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.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• TUTORY
  Tutorage. Holinshed.
• TUTORAGE
  The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.
• 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,
• TUTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
• TUTORESS
  A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.
• TUTORIZE
  To teach; to instruct. I . . . shall tutorize him some day. J. H. Newman.
• TUTORSHIP
  The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• BETUTOR
  To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.
• INSTITUTOR
  A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church. (more info) 1. One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes. 2. One who educates; an instructor. Walker.
• STATUTORY
  Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
• RESTITUTOR
  One who makes restitution. .
• PROSTITUTOR
  One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.