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schoolmaster

/ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/ noun C2
  1. A male teacher.
  2. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
  3. Anything that teaches. (figuratively) · The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

Plural schoolmasters

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But when Diana was born there was a schoolmaster boarding there and they gave him the naming of her and he called her Diana.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 27 · C1
“I wish there had been a schoolmaster like that around when I was born, then.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 27 · C1
He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · B2
He was once a schoolmaster in the north of England.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 162 · C1

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