educator
English Thesaurus
1. someone who educates young people (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | lector, lecturer, reader, |
| definition | : | a public lecturer at certain universities (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | schoolmaster, |
| definition | : | any person (or institution) who acts as an educator (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | instructor, teacher, |
| definition | : | a person whose occupation is teaching (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bethune, mary mcleod bethune, |
| definition | : | United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | braille, louis braille, |
| definition | : | French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | carnegie, dale carnegie, |
| definition | : | United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dewey, john dewey, |
| definition | : | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gallaudet, thomas hopkins gallaudet, |
| definition | : | United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hopkins, mark hopkins, |
| definition | : | United States educator and theologian (1802-1887) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hutchins, robert maynard hutchins, |
| definition | : | United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | laney, lucy craft laney, |
| definition | : | United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | abbott lawrence lowell, lowell, |
| definition | : | United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | horace mann, mann, |
| definition | : | United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | maria montesorri, montessori, |
| definition | : | Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james naismith, naismith, |
| definition | : | United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | carl orff, orff, |
| definition | : | German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pitman, sir isaac pitman, |
| definition | : | English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andrew d. white, andrew dickson white, white, |
| definition | : | United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | emma hart willard, willard, |
| definition | : | United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john witherspoon, witherspoon, |
| definition | : | American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | educate, |
| definition | : | give an education to (verb.social) |
| derivation | : | educate, |
| definition | : | give an education to (verb.social) |
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