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