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Definition of headmaster
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Recent Examples of headmaster from the Web
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Dennis Haskins, the 66-year-old actor who famously played the uptight yet lovable Bayside High School headmaster on the popular 1989 NBC Saturday morning show.
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Treasurer Michael Frerichs, at times sounding like a boarding-school headmaster, told a Chicago news conference that Rauner must go to New York.
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Woodstock Academy Graduates Told To Use Their Gifts Wisely Woodstock Academy seniors were treated to one last speech from their assistant headmaster, on Academy Sunday on June 18.
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Dozens of teenage males at a school in Exeter began sporting the new look this week after their headmaster refused to relax dress codes during a massive heat wave.
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Saddam sipped his tea, took a puff on his cigar, then sat back and smiled, letting the soldiers imagine the fate of that unfortunate headmaster.
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Stewart also served at Malvern Prep as athletic director, teacher, headmaster (1990 to 2006) and president (2006 to 2012).
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Jury deliberations appear to have broken down in the retrial of a former Carlsbad private school headmaster accused of molesting a cadet 20 years ago.
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The former headmaster of a Carlsbad military boarding school was found guilty Monday on six counts of molesting a former cadet at the school nearly 20 years ago, but acquitted on five other molestation charges.
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First Known Use of headmaster
1576
HEADMASTER Defined for English Language Learners
headmaster
playDefinition of headmaster for English Language Learners
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: a man who is the head of a U.S. private school
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: a man who is the head of a British school
HEADMASTER Defined for Kids
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: a man who heads the staff of a private school
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