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SCHOOLTEACHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A teacher in a school below the college level
Synonyms:
school teacher; schoolteacher
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schoolteacher" is a kind of...):
instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schoolteacher"):
games-master; games-mistress (the teacher in charge of games at a school)
mistress; schoolma'am; schoolmarm; schoolmistress (a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict))
Instance hyponyms:
John Scopes; John Thomas Scopes; Scopes (Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970))
Holonyms ("schoolteacher" is a member of...):
school (an educational institution)
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