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• scholemaster (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school +‎ master. Cognate with West Frisian skoalmaster (“schoolmaster”), Dutch schoolmeester (“schoolmaster”), Low German Schoolmeester, Schoolmeister (“schoolmaster”), German Schulmeister (“schoolmaster”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/

名詞

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

1. A male teacher.
   1. A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
2. (figurative) Anything that teaches.

   The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

   • 1994, Gary Goldschneider, Joost Elffers, “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241:

     If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework

派生語

• schoolmasterish
• schoolmasterly
• the schoolmaster is abroad

関連する語

• schoolmistress
• headmaster / headmistress

動詞

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.