schoolmaster

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: school=mas=ter

CIDE DICTIONARY

schoolmaster, n. 

•  The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.  [1913 Webster]

  "Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.  [1913 Webster]

  "The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

schoolmaster, n. a head or assistant male teacher.

Derivative

schoolmasterly adj.

THESAURUS

schoolmaster

abecedarian, certified teacher, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, fellow, guide, guru, instructor, maestro, master, melamed, mentor, mullah, pandit, pedagogist, pedagogue, preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, schoolkeeper, schoolteacher, starets, teacher

ROGET THESAURUS

schoolmaster

Teacher

N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.