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The Meaning of pedagogue

  • (n.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
  • (n.) A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
  • (n.) One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
  • (v. t.) To play the pedagogue toward.

Synonyms

educator , pedagog