schoolmaster
noun
school·mas·ter
ˈskül-ˌma-stər 
1
: a man who teaches school
2
: one that disciplines or directs
3
: a reddish-brown edible snapper (Lutjanus apodus) of the tropical Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico
schoolmasterly
adjective
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
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“Schoolmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmaster. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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schoolmaster
noun
school·mas·ter
-ˌmas-tər
: a man who teaches school
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