SCHOOLTEACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolteacher mean? 

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

1. a teacher in a school below the college level

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLTEACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher in a school below the college level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

school teacher; schoolteacher

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

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

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

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 ("schoolteacher" is a member of...):

school (an educational institution)