schoolmaster

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I'm a little surprised not to see a schoolmaster's corrections on it. I wonder what she conceived this document as.

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presiding officer of a school

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noun

presiding officer of a school

noun

any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

noun

food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for schoolmaster.

noun

presiding officer of a school

noun

any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

noun

food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

Example sentences

I'm a little surprised not to see a schoolmaster's corrections on it. I wonder what she conceived this document as.

Look at the law as a guardian, a schoolmaster, to protect, and to preserve for a time, till the Saviour should come.

I mean if your teacher tells you not to do something, do you go to the schoolmaster and expect to get approval?

I noticed that property when I was 10 after the schoolmaster forced the class to write out the cubes of 1 to 20 to keep us quiet for a few hours.

Basically you want to play schoolmaster and pat me on the head when I confirm 6 times 11 is indeed 66--but culture and conversation is not mathematics.

The discussion was on topic, perhaps not written in APA per APA style guide but we can judge the content just fine without someone pretending to be a schoolmaster tut tutting at a naughty child.

On another occasion, a governor returning from a trip found his administration had no lawyer, no chief justice, no secretary, no chaplain, and only one schoolmaster....The story was similar elsewhere in Britain’s West African outposts.