Synonyms for teacher
ˈti tʃərteach·er

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1. teachernoun

   The index finger; the forefinger.

   Synonyms:
   lickpot, forefinger, index, insignitor, demonstrator, arrow-finger, showing finger, pointling, index finger

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1. teacher

   Synonyms:
   instructor, schoolmaster, preceptor, tutor, professor, pedagogue, educationist, educator, schoolmistress

   Antonyms:
   pupil, scholar, disciple, learner

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1. teacher, instructornoun

   a person whose occupation is teaching

   Synonyms:
   instructor

2. teachernoun

   a personified abstraction that teaches

   "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"

   Synonyms:
   instructor

Matched Categories

1. • Abstraction
   • Educator

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1. teachernoun

   Synonyms:
   instructor, tutor, preceptor, master, PEDAGOGUE, school-master, school-mistress, school-dame

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1. teachernoun

   Synonyms:
   instructor, tutor, master, pedagogue, preceptor, preceptress, governess, coach, usher, mentor

2. teachernoun

   Synonyms:
   faculty

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1. List of paraphrases for "teacher":

   teachers, professor, teaching, prof, schoolteacher, master, educator, mistress, instructor, maestro, faculty, professeur, schoolmaster, lecturer, pedagogical, pedagogue, educators, enseignants, professors, prof., profesor, masters, al-muallim

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How to use teacher in a sentence?

1. Bridget Wiedenmeyer:

   At school, she can't administer her own medication, but she can use her pulse oximeter in class. And if her blood oxygen drops, then her teacher can call me. It can happen so quickly.

2. Shawn Steel:

   She’s using her power as a teacher who gives grades, with a captive audience, to basically scare and shame students.

3. Michael Joseph:

   One girl was a valedictorian, she told me: 'I had no friends until I started traveling. No one understood me. I was always bored with everything everybody else wanted to do. I didn't want to go shopping. I wanted to go out into the woods and hike, and nobody understood that.' She thinks she'll go to college eventually and become a teacher.

4. Michel Foucault:

   The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton:

   The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.