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schoolteaching

schoolteaching noun: serving as a teacher in a school.

Noun

schoolteaching (uncountable)

  1. Serving as a teacher in a school.
    • In any event, the marriage did not terminate Frances Wood's schoolteaching career, as marriage would have for most 19th-century women schoolteachers.1988 June 17, Harold Henderson, “Big Ideas”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2010

Origin of schoolteaching

From school + teaching.

Questions about schoolteaching

What does schoolteaching mean?
Schoolteaching means serving as a teacher in a school.
What part of speech is schoolteaching?
Schoolteaching is a noun.

Words near schoolteaching in the dictionary

  1. schoolteacher
  2. schoolteacherish
  3. schoolteacherly
  4. schoolteachers
  5. schoolteachery
  6. schoolteaching
  7. schooltide
  8. schooltime
  9. schooltimes
  10. schoolward
  11. schoolwards

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