SCHOOL TEACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does school teacher mean? 

• SCHOOL TEACHER (noun)
  The noun SCHOOL TEACHER has 1 sense:

1. a teacher in a school below the college level

  Familiarity information: SCHOOL TEACHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOL TEACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher in a school below the college level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

school teacher; schoolteacher

Hypernyms ("school teacher" is a kind of...):

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

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

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))

Instance hyponyms:

John Scopes; John Thomas Scopes; 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))

Holonyms ("school teacher" is a member of...):

school (an educational institution)

 Context examples 

"I grant that as authorities to quote they are most excellent—the two foremost literary critics in the United States. Every school teacher in the land looks up to Vanderwater as the Dean of American criticism. Yet I read his stuff, and it seems to me the perfection of the felicitous expression of the inane. Why, he is no more than a ponderous bromide, thanks to Gelett Burgess. And Praps is no better. His 'Hemlock Mosses,' for instance is beautifully written. Not a comma is out of place; and the tone—ah!—is lofty, so lofty. He is the best-paid critic in the United States. Though, Heaven forbid! he's not a critic at all. They do criticism better in England.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)