schoolteacher

[ skool-tee-cher ]

/ ˈskulˌti tʃər /

a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.

Origin of schoolteacher

First recorded in 1840–50; school¹ + teacher

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

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She became a schoolteacher, but, as war erupted, began taking in kids abandoned or orphaned by the conflict.

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John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience.

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His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a preacher.

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During the night, they come to a small village and arrive at a house where a schoolteacher lives with his son.

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The country minister and schoolteacher must therefore become prophets of the intellect and of the spirit, in the new order.

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For some time both in her school and church work Belle had been much associated with John Lowe, the schoolteacher.

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Could he say that he had become very much interested in studying a schoolteacher—a very charming school-teacher?

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And there was a show about a schoolteacher and her class of angelic little tots that almost brought Yetsko's lunch up.

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One of these, a schoolteacher, hired him to drive her to the various points of interest around the country.

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schoolteacher

/ (ˈskuːlˌtiːtʃə) /

a person who teaches in a school

schoolteaching, noun