schoolmaster - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• scholemaster (obsolete)

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school +‎ master.

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

1. A male teacher.
   1. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
2. (figurative) Anything that teaches.
   The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
   • (Can we date this quote?), “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241:
     If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework

• schoolmasterish
• schoolmasterly
• the schoolmaster is abroad
• schoolmistress
• headmaster / headmistress

male teacher

• Bulgarian: учител (bg) m (učitel), преподавател (bg) m (prepodavatel)
• Estonian: koolmeister (et) (dated)
• Finnish: koulumestari (fi)
• French: maître d'école (fr) m
• German: Schulmeister (de) m (dated)
• Greek: δάσκαλος (el) m (dáskalos)
• Hungarian: iskolai tanár
• Japanese: 教諭 (ja), 教員 (ja), 教師 (ja), 講師 (ja), 教官 (ja)
• Sindhi: ماسْترُ m (māstru)
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
• Welsh: meistr (cy) m, meistr ysgol m

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.