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variants:
or schoolma'ams
plural of schoolmarm
Synonyms of schoolmarms
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.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for schoolmarms
- headmistresses,
- instructresses,
- mistresses
- [chiefly British],
- schoolmistresses
- educationists
- [chiefly British],
- educators,
- instructors,
- pedagogues
- (also pedagogs),
- preceptors,
- schoolteachers,
- teachers
- interns
- (also internes),
- practice teachers,
- readers,
- student teachers
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