pedagogue
nounEtymology
From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogue.
- derived from παιδαγωγός
- derived from paedagōgus
- derived from pedagogue
- inherited from pedagoge
Definitions
A teacher or instructor of children
A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
- Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
A pedant
A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
- And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.
A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
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To teach.
The neighborhood
- neighborpedagogic
- neighborpedagogical
- neighborpedagogically
- neighborpedagogy
- neighborcholagogue
- neighbordemagogue
- neighborgalactagogue
- neighborochlagogue
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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