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SCHOOLMASTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
Synonyms:
Lutjanus apodus; schoolmaster
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schoolmaster" is a kind of...):
snapper (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)
Holonyms ("schoolmaster" is a member of...):
genus Lutjanus; Lutjanus (type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Presiding officer of a school
Synonyms:
headmaster; master; schoolmaster
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schoolmaster" is a kind of...):
head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schoolmaster"):
housemaster (teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("schoolmaster" is a kind of...):
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
Context examples:
My father was a schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent education.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Harrisons were waving to me from the smithy, and John Cummings from the steps of the inn, and I saw Joshua Allen, my old schoolmaster, pointing me out to the people, as if he were showing what came from his teaching.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I think our schoolmaster might have made them happier, without doing any harm to any of us, I acknowledge,” I returned.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I found myself in the condition of a schoolmaster, a trap, a pitfall; of always playing spider to Dora's fly, and always pouncing out of my hole to her infinite disturbance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In an office that might have been on the ground-floor of the Tower of Babel, it was so massively constructed, we were presented to our old schoolmaster; who was one of a group, composed of two or three of the busier sort of magistrates, and some visitors they had brought.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
