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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

Ask whether teachers are fully licensed in Arkansas and accessible to students on a daily basis.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Many identified themselves as teachers, noting that pandemic-era disruptions to in-class learning severely worsened reading deficits.

— Chris Fusco, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of teacher

Noun

Good coffee, recovery facilities, saunas, ice baths and luxury beauty products available in the changing area, alongside pro-athlete instructors and more specialized programming, are all among members’ expectations.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
The union represents approximately 2,500 instructors, counselors, librarians, college nurses, and program coordinators at all campuses of the district.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of instructor

Noun

In the last fiscal year, Economics Arkansas issued a record-breaking 14,034 professional development hours to 5,116 educators in 210 training sessions, and 19,507 students participated in The Stock Market Game™.

— Michael Poore Special to the Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
Where teachers fit in As chatbots become more widely used, educators can help students evaluate their responses and make their own decisions about how to use them.

— Antonio Perez-Nunez, The Conversation, 30 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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Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to murder, assault and tampering with evidence charges in the February shooting of Ashley Flynn, 37, a schoolteacher and volleyball coach, at their Tipp City home, north of Dayton.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
And the former schoolteacher shepherded the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation, using it to empower the local community through education and mentorship programs.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 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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