schoolmaster

noun 3verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

fair, tough

VERB + SCHOOLMASTER

write

SCHOOLMASTER + NOUN

athenians, life

PREP.

about

ADV.

carefully, then

noun

A male teacher.

Anything that teaches.

The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework

verb

To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

noun — presiding officer of a school

The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

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If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework

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I promis'd to inquire carefully About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca.

Tatoeba · #10299895

Why should he not write to the schoolmaster, and ask him to be so kind as to get him the grammars in Christminster?

Tatoeba · #11514163

I'm a schoolmaster.

Tatoeba · #13838791

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