as in teacher
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instructress
Noun
-
Dozens of Tarrant County College faculty members have been ordered to pay back portions of their salaries, with college administrators saying the teachers did not meet their contractual obligations.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Nov. 2025 -
His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
-
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
-
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
Noun
-
What begins as a private project, however, becomes a passion when her work is noticed by photography instructor, Paul Sorenson.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
-
Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.—
Megan Sauer,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
-
That’s why his mistress threw in with Frank to intimidate Dale into a land deal that would have ruined any chance of Chutto’s family ever getting their land back.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
-
Hamida next interacts with Taro, an unwell Hindu woman forced into prostitution by her husband, who is himself preoccupied with his mistress.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
There appears to be a bizarre codependency among residents, and Laura is still particularly close to her mentor, Tall Pines Academy headmistress, Evelyn Wade (a hauntingly good Toni Collette).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
-
Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
Sergei Revzin,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
-
They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
Noun
-
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.—
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
Noun
-
Here's everything to know about the former schoolteacher.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
-
In the upcoming Louise Kennedy adaptation, Anderson plays Gina, mother of protagonist Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a young Catholic schoolteacher whose life in 1975 Northern Ireland is overshadowed by the Troubles.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share