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

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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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1. Melissa Moritz:

   There is a real powerful opportunity that comes from having someone standing in front of you who might share an aspect of your identity, whether it be gender or race, and then you see yourself in them, they are standing in front of your classroom and they are a role model every day for you. For me it was my seventh grade math teacher.

2. Dana Lovejoy:

   I tell every teacher I know about what happened to me in an effort to protect them from the same thing happening to them. I am not the first to have this 'up-skirting' happen, and the recent stories in the news prove I am not the last, the fact that the action has been given a moniker is evidence that this is taking place too often and with little or no recourse for victims. Our laws have not kept up with our technology.

3. Terry Abbott:

   Social media enables the behavior to start, there is no way that a teacher is going to walk up to a kid in the hallway and say, 'Hey, would you like to see a naked picture of me?' They won't do it. But they will do that on social media. It's like it erases what used to be that barrier.

4. Dan Damond:

   Justine Ruszczyk was and is still my greatest teacher, given Justine Ruszczyk example, I want Mohamed Noors to know that I forgive you, Mohamed Noors. All I ask is that Mohamed Noors use this experience to do good for other people. Be an example of how to transform beyond adversity.

5. Maria Montessori:

   The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.