INSTRUCTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instructor mean? 

• INSTRUCTOR (noun)
  The noun INSTRUCTOR has 1 sense:

1. a person whose occupation is teaching

  Familiarity information: INSTRUCTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTRUCTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose occupation is teaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

instructor; teacher

Hypernyms ("instructor" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "instructor"):

Bahai (a teacher of or believer in Bahaism)

teaching fellow (a graduate student with teaching responsibilities)

section man (someone who teaches a section of a large college course)

science teacher (someone who teaches science)

school teacher; schoolteacher (a teacher in a school below the college level)

riding master (someone who teaches horsemanship)

reading teacher (someone who teaches students to read)

don; preceptor (teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford))

music teacher (someone who teaches music)

missionary (someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program)

math teacher; mathematics teacher (someone who teaches mathematics)

instructress (a woman instructor)

governess (a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home))

French teacher (someone who teaches French)

English professor; English teacher (someone who teaches English)

docent (a teacher at some universities)

demonstrator (a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught)

dance master; dancing-master (a professional teacher of dancing)

coach; private instructor; tutor (a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.))

catechist (one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism))

art teacher (someone who teaches art)

Holonyms ("instructor" is a member of...):

teacher-student relation (the academic relation between teachers and their students)

Derivation:

instruct (impart skills or knowledge to)

instructorship (the position of instructor)

 Context examples 

She had studied literature under skilled instructors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Our venerable instructor was a great deal older, and not improved in appearance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I then said to the queen, since I was now her majesty’s most humble creature and vassal, I must beg the favour, that Glumdalclitch, who had always tended me with so much care and kindness, and understood to do it so well, might be admitted into her service, and continue to be my nurse and instructor.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I listened to his statement, which was delivered without any presumption or affectation, and then added that his lecture had removed my prejudices against modern chemists; I expressed myself in measured terms, with the modesty and deference due from a youth to his instructor, without letting escape (inexperience in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated my intended labours.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You may be completing an important overseas trip during the full moon of February 8-9 or, if you are a professor or instructor at a college, completing your syllabus to give to the Dean.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A brief address on those occasions would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; to His warnings that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, If ye suffer hunger or thirst for My sake, happy are ye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here my master interposing, said, it was a pity, that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind, as these lawyers, by the description I gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I could earn a dollar and a half a day, common labor, and I might get in as instructor in Hanley's cramming joint—I say might, mind you, and I might be chucked out at the end of the week for sheer inability.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)