schoolmaster

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Anything that teaches.

   The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

2. 2
   noun

   food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

3. 3
   noun

   presiding officer of a school

4. 4
   noun

   any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

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

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