EDUCATOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who educates young people

Synonyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

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

academic; academician; faculty member (an educator who works at a college or university)

lector; lecturer; reader (a public lecturer at certain universities)

head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

schoolmaster (any person (or institution) who acts as an educator)

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Instance hyponyms:

McGuffey; William Holmes McGuffey (United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873))

Maria Montesorri; Montessori (Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952))

Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Moynihan (United States politician and educator (1927-2003))

James Naismith; Naismith (United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939))

Carl Orff; Orff (German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982))

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Elizabeth Peabody; Peabody (educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894))

Pitman; Sir Isaac Pitman (English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897))

Anne Mansfield Sullivan; Anne Sullivan; Sullivan (United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936))

Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington (United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915))

Andrew D. White; Andrew Dickson White; White (United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918))

Emma Hart Willard; Willard (United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870))

John Witherspoon; Witherspoon (American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794))

Horace Mann; Mann (United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859))

Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell (United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943))

Laney; Lucy Craft Laney (United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933))

Hutchins; Robert Maynard Hutchins (United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977))

Hopkins; Mark Hopkins (United States educator and theologian (1802-1887))

Gallaudet; Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851))

Friedrich Froebel; Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel; Froebel (German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852))

Dewey; John Dewey (United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952))

Comenius; Jan Amos Komensky; John Amos Comenius (Czech educational reformer (1592-1670))

Carnegie; Dale Carnegie (United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955))

Braille; Louis Braille (French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852))

Bethune; Mary McLeod Bethune (United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955))

Derivation:

educate (give an education to)

Credits

Context examples:

A clinical research professional (i.e., administrator, coordinator, consultant, educator, or researcher in clinical trial management) with related work experience and with certification earned by passing a required program and written examination from the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) or equivalent organization.

(Certified Clinical Research Professional, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, the study demonstrates that the beneficial effects of training on the brain and intelligence are greater when an educator helps the child to understand the training process.

(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)

Nurse educators are registered nurses prepared at the graduate or doctoral level who prepare students for nursing practice at a variety of levels, including entry level, continuing education, advanced practice, and specialty practice.

(Nurse Educator, NCI Thesaurus)