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A schoolmaster is a male teacher, especially in a private school that parents pay for. In older British English this was an ordinary word for a man who taught in a school; today people usually just say teacher, and schoolmaster sounds old, or like a story set in the past. It is not the same as headmaster, who runs the whole school — though actually some mix those two up, because both have master in them. The master part is the old word for a man in charge, the pair of mistress in . You will still meet it in books, in history, and in the names of old schools.
男老師(舊稱,尤指私立學校;不是校長)
組成school + master. From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister. Master here is a man in charge, or a male teacher.
同家族的字
- schoolthe first half: the place of teaching
- masterthe second half: an older word for a man in charge, or a male teacher
- headmasterthe master who runs the whole school, not every male teacher
- schoolmistressthe old female pair of this word
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
schoolmasternoun/ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/
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A male teacher.
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A male teacher.
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Anything that teaches.
- The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
- If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework
schoolmasterverb/ˈskulˌmæstəɹ/
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To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。