schoolteacher

/ˌskulˈtitʃər/
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Other forms: schoolteachers

Definitions of schoolteacher
  1. noun
    a teacher in a school below the college level
    synonyms: school teacher
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    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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