Definition of "schoolma'am" []

• Variant of schoolmarm. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A schoolma'am, which is what he thought her to be, would certainly not have hunted."
• "Perhaps not in the same shape-the schoolma'am is quite emancipated and the schoolhouse 20 or more times larger-but that dedication to a vocation still exists."
• "Fortunately, to face these problems and to meet this challenge to educators, we still have those relics from the past, the schoolma'am and the little red schoolhouse."