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The definition of a pedagogue is an educator or a teacher who is very strict or by-the-book.

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A teacher who makes you stand when he enters the room, who adheres rigidly to every rule whether it makes sense or not, and who gives you detention every time you get a wrong answer is an example of a pedagogue.

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noun

a teacher; often, specif., a pedantic, dogmatic teacher

Origin: ME pedagoge < OFr < L paedagogus < Gr paidagōgos < pais, child (see pedo-) + agein, to lead: see act

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noun

A schoolteacher; an educator.
One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.

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Origin: Middle English pedagoge

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin paedagōgus, slave who supervised children and took them to and from school

Origin: , from Greek paidagōgos

Origin: : paido-, boy; see pedo-¹

Origin: + agōgos, leader (from agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots)

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pedˈa·goguˌish adjective

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