schoolmaster

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun presiding officer of a school
  2. noun any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
  3. noun food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

Etymology

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

In classic literature

Synonyms

headmaster, master

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