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schoolmaster

/ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/

schoolmaster noun: a male teacher.

Noun

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

  1. A male teacher.
    1. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that teaches.
    • The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
    • If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework1994, Gary Goldschneider, Joost Elffers, “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241

Verb

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

  1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

schoolmaster meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and Thai

schoolmaster in Tamil

பள்ளித் தலைமையாசிரியர், பள்ளி திறந்திருக்கும் நேரம், பள்ளிப்பருவம்

schoolmaster in Bengali

প্রধান শিক্ষক, শিক্ষক

schoolmaster in Gujarati

schoolmaster
મહેતો maheto

schoolmaster in Thai

male teacher
อาจารย์ aa-jaan
More languagesFewer languages
Sindhi
ماسْترُ māstru

Examples of schoolmaster in a sentence

  • The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.
  • I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses.
  • Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatient and choleric.

All 10 example sentences with schoolmaster

Forms of schoolmaster

Noun
pluralschoolmasters
alternative form (obsolete)scholemaster
Verb
third-person singular presentschoolmasters
present participleschoolmastering
past participleschoolmastered
pastschoolmastered

Plural of schoolmaster: schoolmasters

Origin of schoolmaster

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master. Cognate with West Frisian skoalmaster (“schoolmaster”), Dutch schoolmeester (“schoolmaster”), Low German Schoolmeester, Schoolmeister (“schoolmaster”), German Schulmeister (“schoolmaster”).

Words formed from schoolmaster

Questions about schoolmaster

What does schoolmaster mean?
Schoolmaster means a male teacher.
What is schoolmaster in Tamil?
Schoolmaster in Tamil is பள்ளித் தலைமையாசிரியர், பள்ளி திறந்திருக்கும் நேரம், பள்ளிப்பருவம். See Schoolmaster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is schoolmaster?
Schoolmaster can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce schoolmaster?
Schoolmaster is pronounced /ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of schoolmaster?
The plural of schoolmaster is schoolmasters.

Words near schoolmaster in the dictionary

  1. schoolmarmish
  2. schoolmarmishly
  3. schoolmarmishness
  4. schoolmarms
  5. schoolmarmy
  6. schoolmaster
  7. schoolmastered
  8. schoolmasterhood
  9. schoolmastering
  10. schoolmasterish
  11. schoolmasterishly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolmaster (page history and authors); schoolmaster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); schoolmaster (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મહેતો (Gujarati) (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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