as in teacher
a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school
schoolteachers don't always get the summers off, for some teach during that period as well
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Recent Examples of schoolteacher
His mother held multiple advanced degrees and worked 40 years as an inner-city schoolteacher.
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Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
—Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
But, able to work in Australia, Kotcheff helmed the unsettling Wake in Fright, about a schoolteacher (Gary Bond) who gets stranded in the outback and must deal with a group of brutal beer-swillers.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
—Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
But, able to work in Australia, Kotcheff helmed the unsettling Wake in Fright, about a schoolteacher (Gary Bond) who gets stranded in the outback and must deal with a group of brutal beer-swillers.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolteacher
Noun
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As education became more standardized, so did teacher licensing.—
Sonari Glinton,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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In 2016, while still a college student, Taitt launched Dream Reach Inspire, hosting his first event with his former high school English teacher, now McKinney principal, Nicole Sledge, in attendance.—
Essence,
Essence,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Jasmine Chaney, 29, an educator in Charlotte, came to support the presentation of Black culture.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
12 July 2025
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In my school, and in schools across the country, educators have spent more time in recent years responding to disputes and supporting appropriate interactions between students.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Di Bona was hailed for his long run with Vin Di Bona Productions and his extensive efforts to train the next generation through his work as an instructor and member of the board of trustees of Emerson College, his alma mater.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
12 July 2025
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There is a $10 per person fee paid to the instructor.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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“Schoolteacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolteacher. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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