TEACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teacher mean? 

• TEACHER (noun)
  The noun TEACHER has 2 senses:

1. a person whose occupation is teaching

2. a personified abstraction that teaches

  Familiarity information: TEACHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose occupation is teaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

instructor; teacher

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

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

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

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

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

Derivation:

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

teachership (the position of teacher)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A personified abstraction that teaches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

experience is a demanding teacher

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

abstract; abstraction (a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance)

Derivation:

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

 Context examples 

I will speak to Miss Temple and the teachers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Little enough, lady, compared with those who were my teachers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The teachers are guides to the chart-room, that's all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This could include talking about mental health issues, training teachers to spot signs of depression and creating intervention programmes for vulnerable young adults.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

They also asked teachers to provide behavioral and academic information about each student.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These higher levels are consistent with reports from parents and teachers, and from other studies, that children with ASDs are more likely to be anxious in social situations than typically developing children.

(Animals’ presence may ease social anxiety in kids with autism, NIH)

I took my state and college exams at home under the gaze of a homeschool teacher sent by the Board of Education.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The others kept shaking me by both hands, and Dr. Van Helsing said:—Our dear Madam Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes have been where we were blinded.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I advise you to learn, for German is a valuable accomplishment to teachers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Apt scholar that he was, they were equally apt teachers, never allowing him to linger long in error, and enforcing their teaching with their sharp teeth.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)