Synonyms:
headmaster, schoolmaster, master
Meaning: presiding officer of a school
Usage examples
The schoolmaster told them of her last hours.
The pale old schoolmaster sat smoking in the garden.
So they bade the schoolmaster good-by and walked on.
The schoolmaster drops all his theories of education and conforms hastily to those of his employers.
He talked to me like a schoolmaster, all so grave and learned; he met me so solemnly that I was struck dumb.
An ideal schoolmaster is not synonymous with the Headmaster of Eton or the owner of the most profitable preparatory school.
The schoolmaster carried her to an inn near by, where she was put to bed and doctored under his care, for she was very weak.
Pershing had whipped one of the farmer's children, and the enraged parent intended to give the young schoolmaster a flogging.
A schoolmaster earns a living by teaching, but he does not feel that he is fighting only for himself; he is a crusader on behalf of education.
He had been appointed schoolmaster, he told her, in another town, to which he was then on his way, and he declared they should go with him and he would care for them.