Library / English Dictionary

TEACHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A personified abstraction that teaches

Example:

experience is a demanding teacher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("teacher" is a kind of...):

abstract; abstraction (a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance)

Derivation:

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person whose occupation is teaching

Synonyms:

instructor; teacher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("teacher" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teacher"):

teaching fellow (a graduate student with teaching responsibilities)

section man (someone who teaches a section of a large college course)

science teacher (someone who teaches science)

school teacher; schoolteacher (a teacher in a school below the college level)

riding master (someone who teaches horsemanship)

reading teacher (someone who teaches students to read)

don; preceptor (teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford))

music teacher (someone who teaches music)

missionary (someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program)

math teacher; mathematics teacher (someone who teaches mathematics)

instructress (a woman instructor)

governess (a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home))

French teacher (someone who teaches French)

English professor; English teacher (someone who teaches English)

docent (a teacher at some universities)

demonstrator (a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught)

dance master; dancing-master (a professional teacher of dancing)

coach; private instructor; tutor (a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.))

catechist (one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism))

Bahai (a teacher of or believer in Bahaism)

art teacher (someone who teaches art)

Holonyms ("teacher" is a member of...):

teacher-student relation (the academic relation between teachers and their students)

Derivation:

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

teachership (the position of teacher)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The questionnaires were filled out by the children’s teachers and parents, which the authors noted is both a strength and limitation.

(Lead in kids’ blood linked with behavioral and emotional problems, NIH)

One should be sorry to see greater pride or refinement in the teacher of a school, Harriet.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The body of teachers and administrators at a school.

(Faculty, NCI Thesaurus)

Refers to the process by which students and teachers at different sites carry out learning and instruction via cable connection, conventional phone lines, or computer networks.

(Distance Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

This can also be the time that parents or teachers recognize learning disabilities or behavioral problems in children.

(Child Development, NIH)

M. Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

APHA brings together researchers, health service providers, administrators, teachers, and other health workers, forming multi-disciplinary environment for professional exchange, study, and action.

(American Public Health Association, NCI Thesaurus)

Although caregivers include trained medical, nursing, and other health personnel, the concept also refers to parents, spouses, or other family members, friends, members of the clergy, teachers, social workers, fellow patients, etc.

(Caregiver, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bachelor's degree in education awarded to students seeking training to become teachers in primary and secondary schools.

(Bachelor of Education, NCI Thesaurus)