educator B2 Topic:People & Society US /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/ UK /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/ See IPA manual Freq #29151 Meanings 1 noun A person whose job is to teach or educate others. She is a respected educator who has trained hundreds of teachers. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a person whose job is to... pedagogue Word family Forms educators Etymology AI details From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or. *dewk- Proto-Indo-European ēducātor Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # educator **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/ **Frequency rank:** 29151 ## Meanings 1. A person whose job is to teach or educate others. ## Examples - She is a respected educator who has trained hundreds of teachers. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *dewk- - Root: ēducātor ## Etymology From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or. ## AI Etymology Educator comes from Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or. In current use, the main sense is “A person whose job is to teach or educate others”. Its deeper ancestry includes Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. ## Topics - People & Society markdown