Definitions

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  • adjective Without a teacher.

Etymologies

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teacher +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Principals or librarians will supervise the 88 teacherless classes.

    There's Just No Substitute 2008

  • We sat and talked, teacherless, for a quarter of an hour, before Corporal Dent, very red-faced, came charging into the room, demanding to know what we were doing there and why we hadn't waited for him.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • The demonstrations were in the Tafara and Mabvuku suburbs, where one school was left teacherless and the other with only a handful of staff after the government last week ordered the dismissal of hundreds of teachers for taking part in a strike over pay.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • She eyed him with the glance of a predatory beast for its prey, and Kemball, who would ordinarily have replied to such a suggestion with a trenchant reference to his teacherless class, sat down on the edge of the nearest chair and waited to hear what she had to say.

    Death at the Opera Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1939

  • Page 4 recent graduate of and teacher at the Institute, was called from there to take charge of this landless, buildingless, teacherless, and studentless institution of learning.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

  • When the young man imbued with these ideas and fresh from these influences found himself responsible for the destinies of a studentless, teacherless, buildingless, and landless school it is significant how he went to work to supply these manifold deficiencies.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

  • So this originally landless, buildingless, studentless, and teacherless school came eventually to have all four of these obvious requisites, but it still lacked a fundamental requirement for the effective fulfillment of its purpose.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

  • Hampton Institute a young colored man, Booker T. Washington, a recent graduate of and teacher at the Institute, was called from there to take charge of this landless, buildingless, teacherless, and studentless institution of learning.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915

  • When the young man imbued with these ideas and fresh from these influences found himself responsible for the destinies of a studentless, teacherless, buildingless, and landless school it is significant how he went to work to supply these manifold deficiencies.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915

  • So this originally landless, buildingless, studentless, and teacherless school came eventually to have all four of these obvious requisites, but it still lacked a fundamental requirement for the effective fulfillment of its purpose.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915

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