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Teacher   /tˈitʃər/   Listen
noun
Teacher  n.  
1.
One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
2.
One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. "The teachers in all the churches assembled."





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"Teacher" Quotes from Famous Books



... went to school in Dorfli every morning and afternoon, and eagerly set to work to learn all that was taught her. She hardly ever saw Peter there, for as a rule he was absent. The teacher was an easy-going man who merely remarked now and then, "Peter is not turning up to-day again, it seems, but there is a lot of snow up on the mountain and I daresay he cannot get along." Peter, however, always seemed able to make his way ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings; But Theodore this moral learned ere dead: Fate poured his lesson on his living head, Bestow'd a kingdom, and ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... sound was heard. The objectivity of the fingers was found out not much before this time by involuntary, painful biting of them, for as late as the fifteenth month the child bit his finger so that he cried out with pain. Pain is the most efficient teacher in the learning of the difference between ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... be the teacher?" he asked passionately, as their lips met again. "Must I show you what ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... his former teacher at Padua, now become Arch-Priest of St. George of the Valley, and his sister Betting. "When I went to pay him a visit . . . she breathed her last in my arms, in 1776, twenty-four hours after my arrival. I will speak of her ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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