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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A schoolteacher; an educator.
  2. n. One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is the instruction of children; a schoolmaster: now used, generally with a sense of contempt, for a dogmatic and narrow-minded teacher. Among the Greeks and Romans the pedagogue was originally a slave who attended the younger children of his master, and conducted them to school, to the theater, etc., combining in many cases instruction with guardianship.
  2. n. A schoolroom, or an apartment set apart as a schoolroom.
  3. To teach; especially, to teach with the air of a pedagogue.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  2. n. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
  3. n. archaic A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Gr. Antiq.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
  2. n. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
  3. n. One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
  4. v. obsolete To play the pedagogue toward.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who educates young people

Etymologies

  1. From Old French pedagogue, from Latin paedagogus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγέω (paidagōgeō), παιδαγωγός (paidagogos), from παιδός (paidos, "child") (genitive of παῖς (pais)) + ἀγωγός (agogos, "guide"), άγω (ágō, "lead"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English pedagoge, from Old French, from Latin paedagōgus, slave who supervised children and took them to and from school, from Greek paidagōgos : paido-, boy; see pedo-1 + agōgos, leader (from agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Unless I’m with Sammy, and then I am “nauseated,” because he likes to play at what he calls a pedagogue and I call a smartass.”

    Simon & Schuster: Closing Time

  • “I do not need take philosophical guidance and suggestion, nor instructions on sexual motivation, from someone who thinks that a pedagogue is a kiddy fiddler.”

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?

  • “And this is not because teaching is laborious -- though it _is_ laborious, and thankless, too, beyond all other occupations; but because a number and variety of causes, into which we need not inquire, have combined to throw ridicule upon him, who is derisively called the pedagogue -- for most men would rather be shot at, than laughed at.”

    Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States

  • “The pedagogue was the constant attendant of the boy.”

    History of Education

  • “Villeroy, whom Henry was wont to call the pedagogue of the council, went about sighing dismally, wishing himself dead, and perpetually ejaculating, "Ho! poor France, how much hast thou still to suffer!”

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

  • “Anyway as you don't seem to know the difference between a paedophile and a 'pedagogue', perhaps it is not worth pursuing this debate.”

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?

  • “By appearing to endorse the building of a mosque and Islamic cultural center at the threshold of Ground Zero, Barack Obama has placed himself in the "pedagogue" category.”

    The Huffington Post: Dominique Moisi: Obama the Pedagogue Versus Sarkozy the Demagogue?

  • “He had been annoyed by his extravagant devotion to Paoli, but then he was something of a military hero; but this tagging at the heels of Dr. Johnson, whom he considered a kind of pedagogue, set his Scotch blood in a ferment.”

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith

  • “This flattered the pedagogue which is inherent in all of us.”

    The Clarion

  • “I recently met a "pedagogue" who impressed me as the most "knowing" individual that it had ever been my privilege to become acquainted with.”

    Craftsmanship in Teaching

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. schoolmaster
  1. pedant
  1. teache

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  1. instructor
  2. booker taliaferro washington
  3. james naismith
  4. braille
  5. dale carnegie
  6. Froebel
  7. lucy craft laney
  8. john dewey
  9. Lowell
  10. Peabody
  11. Bethune
  12. horace mann
  13. Hopkins
  1. lecturer
  2. academic
  3. Gallaudet
  4. faculty member
  5. Washington
  6. anne mansfield sullivan
  7. principal
  8. Orff
  9. sir isaac pitman
  10. school principal
  11. head
  12. abbott lawrence lowell
  13. maria montesorri
  1. booker t. washington
  2. head teacher
  3. white
  4. john witherspoon
  5. thomas hopkins gallaudet
  6. Witherspoon
  7. elizabeth palmer peabody
  8. pitman
  9. Comenius
  10. daniel patrick moynihan
  11. reader
  12. academician
  13. john amos comenius
  1. Mann
  2. teacher
  3. andrew d. white
  4. Moynihan
  5. Naismith
  6. jan amos komensky
  7. McGuffey
  8. mark hopkins
  9. Laney
  10. emma hart willard
  11. robert maynard hutchins
  12. william holmes mcguffey
  13. andrew dickson white
  1. louis braille
  2. friedrich froebel
  3. Hutchins
  4. Dewey
  5. elizabeth peabody
  6. carl orff
  7. anne sullivan
  8. Willard
  9. friedrich wilhelm august froebel
  10. Carnegie
  11. lector
  12. schoolmaster
  13. mary mcleod bethune
  1. Montessori
  2. Sullivan

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  1. pedagog
  2. pedagogic
  1. dominie
  2. pedagoguish
  1. pedagogically
  2. pedagogism
  1. pedagogue
  2. pedagogy
  1. pedantism
  2. superannuated
  1. gerund-grinder
  2. pedagogal
  1. pedant
  2. pedagoguery

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  • gootnbewg He's a windbag and a pedagogue! Jan 7, 2011

  • brtom -- Getououthat, you bloody old pedagogue! the editor said in recognition.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 7 Jan 1, 2007

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