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Definition of "schoolteacher" [schoolteacher]

  • A person who teaches in a school below the college level. (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.

Use "schoolteacher" in a sentence
  • "A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight."
  • "Epilogue: Austin schoolteacher who didn't believe Linux existed"
  • "Reason's Hit and Run blog reports that a British schoolteacher is will be tried for "blasphemy, inciting hatred, and insulting Islam" because she named a teddy bear Muhammad."
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