Thesaurus results for HEADMASTER

headmaster

noun

as in teacher

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Recent Examples of headmaster That same year, the founding headmaster at Greenhill, Bernard Fulton, needed a coach. —

Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026 With his older brother and younger sister, Coleman Bryan Barks grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his father, Herbert Bernard Barks, was the headmaster of the Baylor School, situated on 100 acres. —

Rebecca McCarthy, AJC.com, 28 Feb. 2026 For me, folklore started right back at school, when our junior headmaster used to sit and tell us tall colorful tales, oral Cumbrian legends and ghost stories, which could be augmented and added to in the telling. —

Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Hal’s mother, Avril, is having an affair with Charles Tavis, who is either her half or adoptive brother, and has summarily replaced Hal’s father as headmaster of the academy. —

Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for headmaster

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By the late 1970s, Earle had built a happy life in New York, co-creating plays with composer Peter Link and studying under the famed acting teacher Uta Hagen.

— Christina Ray Stanton, Time, 2 June 2026
With parental rights overruling teachers’ concerns, absenteeism is often ignored.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2026