teacher has definitions from the fields of education,work
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[ noun ] (work,education) a person whose occupation is teaching

Synonyms

instructor

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

He was , however , fortunate in his contact with Prof._J._G._L._Manthey ( 1769 - 1842 ) , teacher of chemistry , who , in_addition to his academic chair , was also proprietor of the `` Lion_Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him .

(Sports Age, 24:9...)

Personnel assigned through the shooting development program have proudly participated in over 53 state and regional workshops , at which hundreds of school administrators , teachers , professors , and recreational leaders have been introduced to Outdoor Education .

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

More bouncing , another stop , a new house for teachers , a new well .

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

In those vocational_programs organized with Smith-Hughes money , there may be a close tie between the labor_union and a local employer on_the_one_hand and the vocational teacher on the other .

However , the teacher can only go so far if the attitude of the community and the family is anti-intellectual .

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[ noun ] (education) a personified abstraction that teaches

Examples

"books were his teachers" "experience is a demanding teacher"

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover , how to behave , how to think about this new experience , how to exercise restraint .

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abstraction teach

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