schoolmaster

A male teacher.

Noun

  1. A male teacher.

    1. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.

  2. Anything that teaches.
    • The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
    • If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework - (Can we date this quote?), “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241:

Origin

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

Forms

schoolmasters scholemaster

Related

schoolmistress headmaster headmistress

Derived

schoolmasterish schoolmasterly the schoolmaster is abroad

Verb

  1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

Forms

schoolmasters schoolmastering schoolmastered scholemaster