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noun

Teacher n.

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. "The teachers in all the churches assembled."

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Etymology of 'Teacher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Teacher" Quotes from Famous Books

... Pisistratus was also famous for his eloquence, although he was a usurper and a tyrant. Isocrates [Footnote: Born 436 B.C.] was a professed rhetorician, and endeavored to base it upon sound moral principles, and rescue it from the influence of the Sophists. He was the great teacher of the most eminent statesmen of his day. Twenty- one of his orations have come down to us, and they are excessively polished and elaborated; but they were written to be read; they were not extemporary. His language is the purest and ...

— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues of wealth and distinction which he considers most honourable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, ...

— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker

... would say to all those who came to him in any sort of hurry. And then when men accused him of being dilatory by premeditation, he would say no, he had always recommended despatch. "Festina," he would say; "festina" by all means; but "festina lente." The doctrine had at any rate thriven with the teacher, for Mr. Die had amassed a ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... means of instruction. The means of supplying the want of these things are always at the command of those who are intelligent, resolute, and determined. It is only the irresolute, the incompetent, and the feeble-minded that are dependent for their progress on having a teacher to show them and to urge them onward, every ...

— Mary Erskine • Jacob Abbott

... one day she asked her teacher, "who made the stars, the firmament above, the earth, the flowers, both ...

— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang

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