schoolmaster

English

Alternative forms

scholemaster (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school +‎ master.

Pronunciation

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Noun

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

A male teacher.
1. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
(figurative) Anything that teaches.
The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
- (Can we date this quote?), “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241:
  If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework

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Translations

male teacher

Bulgarian: учител (bg) m (učitel), преподавател (bg) m (prepodavatel)
Estonian: koolmeister (et) (dated)
Finnish: koulumestari (fi)
French: maître d'école (fr) m
German: Schulmeister (de) m (dated)
Greek: δάσκαλος (el) m (dáskalos)
Hungarian: iskolai tanár
Japanese: 教諭 (ja), 教員 (ja), 教師 (ja), 講師 (ja), 教官 (ja)
Sindhi: ماسْترُ m (māstru)
Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
Welsh: meistr (cy) m, meistr ysgol m

male teacher in charge of a small school

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: johtajaopettaja
Greek: διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
Hungarian: iskolaigazgató (hu)
Japanese: 先生 (ja), 講師 (ja)

anything that teaches

Bulgarian: учител (bg) m (učitel)
Finnish: opettaja (fi)
Hungarian: tanító (hu)
Japanese: 教員 (ja), 教官 (ja), 講師 (ja), 先生 (ja)

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Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} skolestro (io)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} preside (it) m or f
Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Schoulmeeschter m
Manx: ^{(please verify)} mainshtyr scoill m
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} müdür (tr), ^{(please verify)} okul müdürü (tr)

Verb

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.