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pedagog

pedagog is the alternative spelling of pedagogue.

Meaning of pedagogue

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

  1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
    • Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
  2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
    • And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.1759 November 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Education”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number VI...
  3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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Forms of pedagog

Noun
pluralpedagogs
Verb
third-person singular presentpedagogs
present participlepedagoging
past participlepedagoged
pastpedagoged

Questions about pedagog

What is pedagog the alternative spelling of?
Pedagog is the alternative spelling of pedagogue.

Words near pedagog in the dictionary

  1. pedabro
  2. pedabros
  3. pedage
  4. pedages
  5. pedagese
  6. pedagog
  7. pedagogal
  8. pedagoged
  9. pedagogeries
  10. pedagogery
  11. pedagogese

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