schoolteacher

noun

school·​teach·​er ˈskül-ˌtē-chər How to pronounce schoolteacher (audio)
: one who teaches school

Examples of schoolteacher in a Sentence

schoolteachers don't always get the summers off, for some teach during that period as well
Recent Examples on the Web Unfortunately, his schoolteacher became ill after five months of his attendance. USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024 The thriller series follows a schoolteacher who goes on a journey to find a man who ghosted her after a Tinder date, and Barris serves as executive producer alongside the creator of the show, Diarra Kilpatrick. Nathan Vinson, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024 James Bond's met so many women, but how many of them literally have killer thighs? 20 of 30 Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore — The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) An amnesiac small-town schoolteacher (Geena Davis) finds out she's got a mysterious espionage past. Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024 Over the 2022-23 school year in New York City, nearly one in five public schoolteachers was absent 11 days or more, an increase from the previous year and from before the pandemic. Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024 Sony Pictures Classics’ The Teachers’ Lounge follows Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch), a schoolteacher who decides to take matters into her own hands when one of her students is suspected of theft. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024 Connecticut women, like the 25-year-old schoolteacher Kezia Peck, traveled great distances to attend Wide Awake rallies, hollering slogans and waving handkerchiefs. Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024 Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, passed her final days in anguish, enduring severe diarrhea and nausea and terrible sores in her mouth that kept her from eating, drinking, and, eventually, speaking. Arthur Allen | Kff Health News, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, a schoolteacher turned politician who led Tanzania as its second post-independence president and helped dismantle the doctrinaire socialism of his predecessor, Julius K. Nyerere, died on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, the country’s former capital. Alan Cowell, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1751, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of schoolteacher was in 1751

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“Schoolteacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolteacher. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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schoolteacher

noun
school·​teach·​er -ˌtē-chər How to pronounce schoolteacher (audio)
: a person who teaches school

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