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schoolmaster

skoohlma ster

  • n  presiding officer of a school
  • n  any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
  • n  food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

  • The Soviet Commissariat for Public Instruction has set out to find the best schoolmaster in Russia.
  • He spent his youth sneaking booze behind the backs of his schoolmasters and reveling in his stack of demerits.
  • Then the son of a schoolmaster grew up.
News & Articles

  • Exeter preferred women teachers to men
    The records do not show any organized public schools in Exeter until 1703 when the town voted to hire a schoolmaster. Three years later, they decided they needed an actual school building. For the next 100 years, the record merely tells us the names of each schoolmaster.
    Sept. 3, 2013 - Exeter News-Letter
Quotes

  • Ranjib Biswal in Reuters India
    Greg could not understand Indian cricketers' psyche. He was more like a schoolmaster than a friend,selector Ranjib Biswal told news channel Headlines Today on Tuesday, in a programme where four of the five selectors discussed the team's problems.
  • Martin Bodenham in BBC Sport
    My schoolmaster was a Northern Ireland international,Bodenham told BBC Sport. "He said I wasn't good enough (to be a professional) and that I would never play football at Wembley, but suggested I take up refereeing. He said 'One day you...
  • Gerhard Casper in Media Newswire (press release)
    The fundamental problem is this: We have played the role of schoolmaster to the world throughout much of the post-World War II period,Casper said. "What has happened in the last eight years is that much of our standing to give advice on...

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