instructress

noun

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  1. teacher
  2. schoolmistress
  3. instructor
  4. mistress
  5. headmistress
  6. pedagogue
  7. schoolmaster
  8. schoolteacher
Noun
  • That was bad for teachers and students and was a root cause of growing parental dissatisfaction and mistrust of public education.
    — James A. Kadamus, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Also watch out from some entertaining comedy moments delivered by Ryan O’Donnell (who plays Cher’s father, the teacher and a driving instructor) and Imelda Warren-Green (who also takes on multiple cameo roles as Miss Geist, Miss Stoeger and Cher’s housekeeper).
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of teacher
Noun
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.
    — Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of schoolmistress
Noun
  • Search and recovery diving instructor Juan Heredia, founder of the nonprofit Angels Recovery Dive Team, found Dane after a two-hour dive in the frigid waters of the Siletz River in Lincoln County, Ore., about three miles downstream from the boy’s home, per CNN.
    — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • As even the instructors at Radford will readily admit, every driver is still a student.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of instructor
Noun
  • Du Maurier makes good use of many of the usual tropes of the Gothic genre, especially uncanny doubling: Relentlessly and unfavorably compared to the Manderley estate’s bewitching former mistress, the nameless narrator is pushed to the brink of sanity by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
    — M.L. Rio, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The castle owes its existence to prominent women who ensured it was restored, including Catherine de’ Medici (married to King Henry II) and Diane de Poitiers (his mistress).
    — Kimberley Lovato, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025
Definition of mistress
Noun
  • The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
    — Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Wild Child also stars Emma Roberts and Natasha Richardson in a tale of what happens when teenage California native Poppy (Roberts) is shipped off to boarding school in England, where Richardson plays the headmistress.
    — Alex Ross, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Definition of headmistress
Noun
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
    — Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Definition of pedagogue
Noun
  • On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • In the original Irving tale, the character of Katrina — the young woman in Sleepy Hollow who schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and prankster Brom Bones covet as a future bride — has only a small part.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
Definition of schoolmaster
Noun
  • Flack, who died on Monday at 88, began her career as a schoolteacher with a solid grounding in both classical music and Black church singing.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The wiry and intense physicality that Benesch brought to her role as a newbie schoolteacher in The Teachers’ Lounge — a kind of frankness and presence that’s evident too in her mostly deskbound role in September 5 — finds new depths in her Late Shift performance.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of schoolteacher
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