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teacher

teach·er

(tē′chər)

One who teaches, especially one hired to teach.

teach′er·ly adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

teacher

(ˈtiːtʃə)

1. (Professions) a person whose occupation is teaching others, esp children

2. a personified concept that teaches: nature is a good teacher.

ˈteacherless adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

teach•er

(ˈti tʃər)

a person who teaches.

teacher

fescue - A pointer, such as that used by a teacher, having originally meant "a straw or twig."
docent, docible, docile - Docent comes from Latin docere, "to teach"; docible is "capable of learning" and docile first meant "teachable."
Socratic method - A teaching technique in which a teacher does not give information directly but instead asks a series of questions, with the result that the student comes either to the desired knowledge by answering the questions or to a deeper awareness of the limits of knowledge.
tuition - First meant taking care of something, then teaching or instruction, especially for a fee.

professor

– teacher

1. 'professor'

In a British university, a professor is the most senior teacher in a department.

Professor Cole is giving a lecture today.

She was professor of English at Strathclyde University.

In an American or Canadian university or college, a professor is a senior teacher. He or she is not necessarily the most senior teacher in a department.

He's a physics professor at Harvard.

My professor allowed me to retake the test.

2. 'teacher'

Don't use 'professor' to refer to a person who teaches at a school or similar institution. Use teacher.

I'm a qualified French teacher.

The teacher set us some homework.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

teacher - a person whose occupation is teaching

Bahai - a teacher of or believer in Bahaism

catechist - one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism)

demonstrator - a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught

docent - a teacher at some universities

governess - a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)

missionary - someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program

preceptor, don - teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

section man - someone who teaches a section of a large college course

teaching fellow - a graduate student with teaching responsibilities

teacher - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"

abstract, abstraction - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

teacher

noun instructor, coach, tutor, don, guide, professor, trainer, lecturer, guru, mentor, educator, handler, schoolteacher, pedagogue, dominie (Scot.), master or mistress, schoolmaster or schoolmistress I'm a teacher with 21 years' experience.

Quotations
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master" [Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind]
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops" [Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams]
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence" [A. Bronson Alcot]
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists]
"I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day" [Stephen Leacock]
"It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they drive him into the profession of a schoolmaster" [Seneca]

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teacher

noun

Translations

učitel-ka

lærerlærerinde

instruisto

آموزاننده

opettaja

učiteljučiteljicanastavnicanastavnik

oktatópedagógustanártanárnőtanító

kennari

教師

교사

magistermagistra

učiteljučiteljica

учитеључитељица

lärarelärarinna

mwalimu

ครู

giáo viên

teacher

[ˈtiːtʃəʳ]

A. N (in secondary school) → profesor(a) m/f; (in primary school) → maestro/a m/f
French teacher → profesor(a) m/f de francés

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

teacher

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

teacher

[ˈtiːtʃəʳ] n (gen) → insegnante m/f; (in secondary school) → professore/essa; (in primary school) → maestro/a
French teacher → insegnante di francese

teach

(tiːtʃ) – past tense, past participle taught (toːt) – verb

to give knowledge, skill or wisdom to a person; to instruct or train (a person). She teaches English / the piano; Experience has taught him nothing.

ˈteacher noun

a person who teaches, especially in a school.

teaching noun

1. the work of teacher. Teaching is a satisfying job; (also adjective) the teaching staff of a school.

2. guidance or instruction. She followed her mother's teaching.

3. something that is taught. one of the teachings of Christ.

teacher

→ مُدَرِّس učitel lærer Lehrer δάσκαλος maestro opettaja professeur učitelj insegnante 教師 교사 onderwijzer lærer nauczyciel professor учитель lärare ครู öğretmen giáo viên 教师

I'm a teacher

teacher

n maestro -tra mf, profesor -ra mf