SCHOOLMASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolmaster mean? 

• SCHOOLMASTER (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLMASTER has 3 senses:

1. presiding officer of a school

2. any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

3. food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLMASTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLMASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Presiding officer of a school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

headmaster; master; schoolmaster

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

head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

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

housemaster (teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lutjanus apodus; schoolmaster

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

snapper (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)

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

genus Lutjanus; Lutjanus (type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers)

 Context examples 

He is not a schoolmaster now, Traddles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There is the death of this schoolmaster to be accounted for.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During that time she ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than from the schoolmaster.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Professor only raised his great eyebrows, as the schoolmaster meets the irrelevant observation of the naughty boy.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But we were bound to confess that he was game, though he might be a traitor, for down he came, striding into the midst of us with his brown coat and his buckled shoes, and the fire beating upon his grim, schoolmaster face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And not only did it appear that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong, though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster, were bent on introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of his arrival.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may easily believe, said he, how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: ‘I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.’ But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“From Creakle the schoolmaster?” exclaimed Traddles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sherlock Holmes had listened with the utmost intentness to the statement of the unhappy schoolmaster.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)