Definition of "school-teacher" [school•-teach•er]

• One who teaches or instructs a school. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "In a poor rural community in China the school-teacher has to go on a trip, so he hires a student (she's only 13 or 14) to substitute for him with the proviso that she is only paid if all the students stay in class the month he is gone."
• "A wise school-teacher sends him to acting class and before you know it, Leguizamo is studying under Lee Strasberg."
• "It was when we began to eat our lunch that Mrs. Kepler stopped being the school-teacher and spoke with warmth and concern."