headteacher

noun

Etymology

From head + teacher.

  1. inherited from techere
  2. compounded as headteacher — “head + teacher

Definitions

  1. The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and…

    The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and administration.

    • I had to go and see the headteacher about my attitude.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at headteacher. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at headteacher. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at headteacher

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA