housemaster

noun

house·mas·ter ˈhau̇s-ˌma-stər

: a master in charge of a house in a boy's boarding school

Examples of housemaster in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The rare critique with bite in these pages comes from, of all places, Boris Johnson’s Eton housemaster. —

Krithika Varagur, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022 That is, if Crusoe had a luxurious oceanfront villa with air-conditioning, Wi-Fi, and a private plunge pool, plus a housemaster reachable by WhatsApp 24/7 to attend to any needs. —

Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2021 The dead man’s father (Cedric Hardwicke), aunt (Constance Collier) and girlfriend (Joan Chandler) attend, along with the three men’s former prep-school housemaster, Rupert (James Stewart). —

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020 Johnson’s housemaster, Martin Hammond, wrote in the spring of 1982, when Johnson was seventeen. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019

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