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Pedagogue
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Pedagogue has 1 sense
- pedagogue(n = noun.person) educator, pedagog - someone who educates young people; Array has particulars: academic, academician, faculty member, lector, lecturer, reader, head, head teacher, principal, school principal, schoolmaster, instructor, teacher, bethune, mary mcleod bethune, braille, louis braille, carnegie, dale carnegie, comenius, jan amos komensky, john amos comenius, dewey, john dewey, friedrich froebel, friedrich wilhelm august froebel, froebel, gallaudet, thomas hopkins gallaudet, hopkins, mark hopkins, hutchins, robert maynard hutchins, laney, lucy craft laney, abbott lawrence lowell, lowell, horace mann, mann, mcguffey, william holmes mcguffey, maria montesorri, montessori, daniel patrick moynihan, moynihan, james naismith, naismith, carl orff, orff, elizabeth palmer peabody, elizabeth peabody, peabody, pitman, sir isaac pitman, anne mansfield sullivan, anne sullivan, sullivan, booker t. washington, booker taliaferro washington, washington, andrew d. white, andrew dickson white, white, emma hart willard, willard, john witherspoon, witherspoon
is a kind of professional, professional person
CIDE DICTIONARY
Pedagogue, n. [F. pédagogue, L. paedagogus, Gr. paidagwgo`s; pai^s, paido`s, a boy + 'a`gein to lead, guide; cf. 'agwgo`s leading. See Page a servant, Agent.].
- A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally. [1913 Webster]
- A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster. [1913 Webster]
- One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Pedagogue, v. t. [Cf. L. paedagogare to instruct.].
To play the pedagogue toward. Prior. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Pedagogue, n. archaic or derog. a schoolmaster; a teacher.
Derivative
pedagogic adj. pedagogical adj. pedagogically adv. pedagogism n. (also pedagoguism).
Etymology
ME f. L paedagogus f. Gk paidagogos f. pais paidos boy + agogos guide
THESAURUS
Pedagogue
abecedarian, certified teacher, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, fellow, guide, guru, instructor, maestro, master, melamed, mentor, mullah, pandit, pedagogist, preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, starets, teacherROGET THESAURUS
Pedagogue
Affectation
N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.Scholar
N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.Teacher
N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.
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