Synonyms of schoolmarm

schoolmarm

noun

variants or schoolma'am

as in teacher

US, old-fashioned a woman who teaches in a school in a small town or in the country

In the movie, she plays a doting schoolmarm in colonial New England.

Related Words

• teacher
• mistress
• instructor
• doctor
• master
• professor
• schoolmistress
• schoolteacher
• headmaster
• educator
• headmistress
• coach
• tutor
• schoolmaster
• pedagogue
• guru
• preacher
• guide
• mentor
• trainer
• instructress
• rector
• preceptor
• educationist
• preparer
• dean
• lecturer
• prof
• docent
• pedant
• reader
• drillmaster
• academician
• don
• governess
• academe
• intern
• tutoress
• catechist
• academic
• student teacher
• inculcator
• homeschooler
• regius professor
• didact
• practice teacher
• moralizer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of schoolmarm

No ruler-wielding schoolmarm can impart the urgency of learning the way hunger can. — John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026

Visitors can relive a school experience from the early 20th century, complete with a schoolmarm and an outhouse. — Jshortavon, cleveland, 23 July 2023

The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton. — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025

University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas. — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud. — Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025

In the music video, Gavin plays the titular cheerleader who is smitten with a girl in the program; meanwhile, Bridgers plays the pink-haired schoolmarm in charge, while popular gay comedian Caleb Hearon plays a conflicted gay coach. — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022