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teacher
| teacher's certificate
| teacher's pet
| teacher-student relation
| teachers college
| teachership
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teacher has 2 senses
- teacher(n = noun.person) instructor - a person whose occupation is teaching; Array has particulars: art teacher, bahai, catechist, coach, private instructor, tutor, dance master, dancing-master, demonstrator, docent, english professor, english teacher, french teacher, governess, instructress, math teacher, mathematics teacher, missionary, music teacher, don, preceptor, reading teacher, riding master, school teacher, schoolteacher, science teacher, section man, teaching fellow
- teacher(n = noun.cognition) Array - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher" is a kind of abstract, abstraction
is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
is a member of teacher-student relation
Derived forms verb teach2, verb teach1, noun teachership1
Derived forms verb teach2, verb teach1
CIDE DICTIONARY
teacher, n.
- One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. [1913 Webster]
- One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. [1913 Webster]"The teachers in all the churches assembled." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
teacher
Aaronic priesthood, Dutch uncle, Melchizedek priesthood, Polonius, Seventy, admonisher, adviser, advisor, apostle, backseat driver, bishop, boss, buttinsky, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary, cicerone, coach, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, deacon, docent, doctor, dominie, don, ecclesiarch, educationist, educator, elder, employer, expert, fellow, forerunner, goodman, guide, guru, high priest, husband, instructor, kibitzer, lecturer, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, master, meddler, mentor, mistress, monitor, nestor, orienter, overlord, padrone, paramount, paterfamilias, pathfinder, patriarch, patron, preceptist, preparationist, preparator, preparer, priest, professor, rabbi, sahib, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolteacher, seigneur, seignior, starets, trailblazer, trainer, tutorROGET THESAURUS
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Advice
N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.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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