Schoolmaster
['skuːlmɑːstə] or ['skulmæstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters.
(noun.) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator.
Typist: Sharif--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
(n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Typed by Allan
Examples
- I make the schoolmaster so ridiculous, and so aware of being made ridiculous, that I see him chafe and fret at every pore when we cross one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The boy, Hexam, was training for and with a schoolmaster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I can get money out of a schoolmaster though. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And it seemed probable that all learned men had a sort of schoolmaster's view of young people. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I suppose you,' said Eugene, 'judging from what I see as I look at you, to be rather too passionate for a good schoolmaster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My father was a schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent education. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You want 'em,' said Riderhood, making towards the schoolmaster by his plank bridge. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The schoolmaster can't attend to me and the boys too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If he, the Secretary, engaged that schoolmaster to impart it to him, the channel might be opened. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Go home all of you to dinner, said the schoolmaster, except Jacob. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is right that there should be schoolmasters, and missionaries, and all such men, she replied. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- So the patient work of the German schoolmasters was disowned, and the Hohenzollern declared himself triumphant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- True pride wouldn't have schoolmasters brought here, like doctors, to look at a bad case. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All that was good, all that was great in this modern Germany, she owed indeed to her schoolmasters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The place is overrun with schoolmasters. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Emily