didacts

noun

plural of didact
as in teachers

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  1. teachers
  2. educators
  3. pedants
  4. instructors
  5. academics
  6. schoolteachers
Noun
  • With that money, the foundation offered to train 82 Orange County public school teachers for free.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The law requires districts developing their policies to obtain input from teachers’ representatives, administrators and parents or guardians.
    — Kavin Bendre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of teachers
Noun
  • In 2025 alone, Abbott said Texas saw more than 1,600 allegations of improper relationships between educators and students.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The district also took time to highlight its multilingual educators.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
    — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
Definition of pedants
Noun
  • By 2021 only 32% had that status, and the rest were adjunct instructors or contract faculty.
    — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Suddenly there are multiple instructors, schedules and communities and thousands of parent interactions.
    — Ignacio Carranza, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructors
Noun
  • The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 May 2026
  • These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
    — Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Definition of academics
Noun
  • Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
  • At those gatherings, there will be fans like these two schoolteachers, who have saved their money for decades to watch the world’s best play all over the world.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
Definition of schoolteachers
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