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didact

noun

Definition of didact

as in teacher

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Recent Examples of didact Gordon Chester, 39, a city engineering technician in the public works department, is an urban housing policy auto-didact. — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 27 May 2026 Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons. — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018 The most unlikely challenge to Boston’s visual didacts came from those who couldn’t see at all. — Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018

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Noun

But the public school teachers there just received bonuses from the parish government.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martínez, a teacher’s assistant, five times and then bragged about it.

— Jesus Chuy Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of teacher

Noun

The gathering place is beach club Nammo, with its poolside restaurant and watersports instructors, smack in front of Bo’a break.

— Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
Like Guidera, Walsh also works as a surf instructor with a similar goal to instill confidence in his students.

— Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of instructor

Noun

District leaders say the additional funding helps retain and recruit educators amid rising living costs.

— Abby Dodge, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Data from the Illinois State Board of Education’s Educator Licensure Information System said Rohde was originally issued his professional educator’s license in the Lake County region in 1993.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of educator

Noun

While scientists around the globe believe there's water ice on the moon, said Ye Peijian, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, no one has definitively found and fully evaluated that resource as yet.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2026
The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.

— Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 24 May 2026

Definition of academician

Noun

And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.

— Lorela U. Sandoval, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.

— Maysam Ghovanloo, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2026

Definition of academe

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His lead trial attorney, Edward Bilinkas, a dapper New Jersey man then nearing seventy, had the courtroom delivery of a schoolteacher trying to hush nonsense at the back of the class by raising his own voice.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
The story follows Masterji, a retired schoolteacher whose refusal to go along with those around him places him in direct conflict with his own community.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of schoolteacher

Noun

The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.

— News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026

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