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The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.

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  1. n. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
  2. n. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
  3. n. presiding officer of a school
  4. n. any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
  5. n. food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
  6. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham. 2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us into Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
  7. n:100 n. any person (or institution) who acts as an educator n. food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters