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instructour

instructour is the obsolete form of instructor.

Meaning of instructor

Noun

instructor (plural instructors)

  1. One who instructs; a teacher.
    • According to the National Centre for Education Statistics' most recent numbers (2012), 50% of instructors at degree-granting institutions in the US are part-time. […] Through teaching as an adjunct instructor while still a graduate student, I've had the luxury of developing my career: testing out...2014 March 14, Jacqueline Taylor, “Life without tenure: how I've found fulfilment in US academia”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    instructer

Forms of instructour

pluralinstructours

Questions about instructour

What is instructour the obsolete form of?
Instructour is the obsolete form of instructor.

Words near instructour in the dictionary

  1. instructorish
  2. instructors
  3. instructorship
  4. instructorships
  5. instructory
  6. instructour
  7. instructours
  8. instructress
  9. instructresses
  10. instructrices
  11. instructrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instructour (page history and authors); instructor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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