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schoolteacher

DEFINITIONS OF: schoolteacher

1

n a teacher in a school below the college level

Synonyms:
school teacher
Examples:
John Thomas Scopes
Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
Types:
games-master, games-mistress
the teacher in charge of games at a school
mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm, schoolmistress
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
Type of:
instructor, teacher
a person whose occupation is teaching
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