Word.ws English Dictionary

underteacher

underteacher noun: a lower-ranking teacher; an assistant teacher.

Noun

underteacher (plural underteachers)

  1. (dated) A lower-ranking teacher; an assistant teacher.

Forms of underteacher

pluralunderteachers

Origin of underteacher

From under- + teacher.

Questions about underteacher

What does underteacher mean?
Underteacher means a lower-ranking teacher; an assistant teacher.
What part of speech is underteacher?
Underteacher is a noun.
What is the plural of underteacher?
The plural of underteacher is underteachers.

Words near underteacher in the dictionary

  1. undertax
  2. undertaxed
  3. undertaxes
  4. undertaxing
  5. underteach
  6. underteacher
  7. underteachers
  8. underteaches
  9. underteaching
  10. underteller
  11. undertellers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: underteacher (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underteacher.wav.

Cite this entry: “underteacher.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underteacher. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.