Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

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  • noun A teacher

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Examples

  • A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight.

    Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary 2010

  • Epilogue: Austin schoolteacher who didn't believe Linux existed

    Boing Boing 2008

  • 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.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • And why Isaac Murphy, a schoolteacher from the area who later became Arkansas's governor, led a movement for secession from Arkansas when the state seceded from the Union.

    Post-President For Life 2003

  • And why Isaac Murphy, a schoolteacher from the area who later became Arkansas's governor, led a movement for secession from Arkansas when the state seceded from the Union.

    Post-President For Life 2003

  • Dori, a schoolteacher, is taking weekly chemo sessions.

    Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives 2002

  • "We're afraid this election will witness violence and clashes between those competing for power," said Sardashat Aziz, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.

    The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front 2009

  • "We're afraid this election will witness violence and clashes between those competing for power," said Sardashat Aziz, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.

    The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front 2009

  • The schoolteacher is a trembling weight at her elbow.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • The schoolteacher is a trembling weight at her elbow.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

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