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Another word for instructor

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Noun

  1. One who educates

      1. A teacher or teaching assistant in some universities and colleges having a rank lower than that of an instructor.
      2. In some American universities and colleges, a teacher ranking below an instructor; teaching assistant
      3. A teacher who gives individual instruction to a student; private teacher
      1. Something, as an apparatus, used in training
      2. A member of a naval gun crew who trains cannons horizontally.
      3. A person who trains, provides first aid for, etc. athletes in competition
      1. A person who teaches, esp. as a profession; instructor
      2. (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
      3. A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.
      1. A schoolteacher; an educator.
      2. One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.
      3. A teacher; often, specif., a pedantic, dogmatic teacher
      1. An administrator of a school or an educational institution.
      2. A person whose work is to educate others; teacher
      3. A specialist in the theory and practice of education.
    See also:

    teach

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Another word for instructor

Noun
      1. The academic rank held by such a faculty member.
      2. A member of the faculty of a college or university usually having qualified status without rank or tenure.
      3. A faculty member ranking below an assistant professor.
      1. A teacher or teaching assistant in some universities and colleges having a rank lower than that of an instructor.
      2. In some American universities and colleges, a teacher ranking below an instructor; teaching assistant
      3. In English universities, a college official in charge of the studies of an undergraduate
      1. Any person claiming or assumed to be especially skilled or experienced in some art, sport, etc.
      2. A teacher or instructor.
      3. A college or university teacher who ranks above an associate professor.
    See also:

    teacher

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Sentence Examples

  • In1867-1869he was an instructor in the U.S. Naval Academy.

  • Malden's Workman's Technical Instructor (London, 1905).

  • Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

  • In 1794 a nautical school was founded at Lima, with Andres Baleato as instructor and Pedro Alvarez as teacher of the use of instruments.

  • On returning to Prussia he became mathematical instructor at the school of military engineering, leaving this post in 1792 to take part as a general staff officer in the war against France.

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