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schoolteacher Definition

school·teacher (-tē′c̸hər)

noun

a person whose work is teaching in a school

schoolteacher Synonyms

schoolteacher

n.

educator, lecturer, instructor; see teacher 1, 2, professor.

schoolteacher Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Later he became a schoolteacher specializing in Religious Education.
  • feature: Answer- Basketball 45 Which children's TV series featured a schoolteacher called Mr Onion?
  • include: Serb forces executed 20 men, including schoolteachers, on March 25.
  • kill: Serb forces reportedly killed 21 schoolteachers in this village near Srbica.
  • have: I've waited years to have a schoolteacher in this court.
  • take: In the 1960s, I once took two delightful English schoolteachers on a Highland Tour.

Preposition: in

  • village: The 30-year diary of an irascible, puritanical schoolteacher in a Welsh village: quite marvelous.

Adjective modifier

  • retired: Mary is a retired schoolteacher who has volunteered for WCB for over seven years.
  • former: Sheldon Mayet, a former schoolteacher, is the man responsible for bringing along black children's cricket.
  • primary: Ann Waite:- A qualified primary schoolteacher, who began teaching woodwind on moving to North Wales.
  • local: Local schoolteachers in 1851 seem to have come from the Midlands.
  • young: Soon afterward he married Marjory Davidson, a young Scottish schoolteacher.

Modifies a noun

  • friend: Sadly, such a cure is out of the reach, for the moment, of my schoolteacher friend.

Noun used with modifier

  • physics: The Sun and Gold Nick Kollerstrom has a Cambridge science degree and has worked as a physics schoolteacher.
  • fifth-grade: A bigger car fifth-grade schoolteacher in sure your family to six months.
  • nursery: The program was developed by a group of FA qualified coaches and nursery schoolteachers.
  • woman: The same thing happened to a woman schoolteacher and to a linesman.
  • state: Greece British Council in Greece offers a regular seminar program for teachers as well as introductory courses and courses for state schoolteachers.