Instructor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=struc=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

Instructor, n. [L., a preparer: cf. F. instructeur.].

 One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Instructor, n. (fem. instructress)
1 a person who instructs; a teacher, demonstrator, etc.
2 US a university teacher ranking below professor.

Derivative

instructorship n.

THESAURUS

Instructor

Dutch uncle, Polonius, abecedarian, academe, academician, admonisher, adviser, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, air pilot, airplanist, assistant, assistant professor, associate, associate professor, astronaut, aviator, backseat driver, barnstormer, birdman, buttinsky, captain, certified teacher, cloud seeder, coach, commercial pilot, confidant, consultant, copilot, counsel, counselor, crop-duster, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, emeritus, expert, fellow, flier, forerunner, guide, guru, jet jockey, kibitzer, lecturer, licensed pilot, maestro, master, meddler, melamed, mentor, mistress, monitor, mullah, nestor, orienter, pandit, pathfinder, pedagogist, pedagogue, pilot, preceptist, preceptor, preparationist, preparator, preparer, professor, professor emeritus, pundit, rabbi, rainmaker, reader, retired professor, scholastic, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, starets, stunt flier, stunt man, teacher, test pilot, trailblazer, trainer, tutor, visiting professor, wingman

ROGET THESAURUS

Instructor

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.