masternoun(TEACHER)UKold-fashioned

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Teachers
academician
ALNCo
associate professor
board of education
co-principal
homeschooler
housemaster
housemistress
instructor
lecturer
rector
residence
schoolie
schoolmarm
schoolmistress
scribe
teaching assistant
trainer
tutor
visiting

Examples of schoolmaster

schoolmaster
Nor were they, unlike many ordained public schoolmasters, accorded the prestige attributed to members of the clergy.
Nor has the schoolmaster been altogether willing to regard his classroom as chiefly an exploration ground for the rambling psychological explorer.
There was also the doctor, and possibly the schoolmaster or mistress.
Officeholding has imaginative precedence: judges are not spoken of as husbands or schoolmasters, nor prisoners as wives.
Whereupon the mayor, the minister, the aldermen, the schoolmaster, capital burgesses and common burgesses, in all above one hundred, did publicly and solemnly pronounce it.
As he was a brilliant pupil at the primary school, his schoolmaster persuaded his family to allow him to continue his formal education.
In the process they were putting forward an alternative to the professional model offered by the public schoolmasters.
In addition, two of the essays are concerned with pre-university schools and schoolmasters.
We also would like to express our gratitude to all the schoolmasters and teachers involved in this survey.
Almost invariably, she set out alone, or in the company of other ladies, leaving her schoolmaster behind to guard the domestic hearth.
The schoolmaster's voice was no longer the only authority on what foreign languages sounded like.
They and licensing books also record the appointment, or licensing, of unbeneficed clergy or curates and preachers, appointments of schoolmasters, resignations, and other similar events.
Thus, the qualification of a public schoolmaster was a good liberal education, which marked him out as a gentleman, not pedagogical expertise.
This applied to the children who obeyed the orders of the schoolmaster rather strictly and who always finished their homework.
In fact, of the 2,616 occupations listed, only 459 were unambiguously working class, the remainder comprising for the most part clerks, scholars and schoolmasters.
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