teacher

teacher
    n 1: a person whose occupation is teaching [syn: {teacher},
         {instructor}]
    2: a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his
       teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
    

Teacher \Teach"er\, n.
   1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or
      occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
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   2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a
      minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches
      without regular ordination.
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            The teachers in all the churches assembled. --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.
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79 Moby Thesaurus words for "teacher":
      Aaronic priesthood, Dutch uncle, Melchizedek priesthood, Polonius,
      Seventy, admonisher, adviser, advisor, apostle, backseat driver,
      bishop, boss, buttinsky, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary,
      cicerone, coach, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, deacon,
      docent, doctor, dominie, don, ecclesiarch, educationist, educator,
      elder, employer, expert, fellow, forerunner, goodman, guide, guru,
      high priest, husband, instructor, kibitzer, lecturer, liege,
      liege lord, lord, lord paramount, master, meddler, mentor,
      mistress, monitor, nestor, orienter, overlord, padrone, paramount,
      paterfamilias, pathfinder, patriarch, patron, preceptist,
      preparationist, preparator, preparer, priest, professor, rabbi,
      sahib, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolteacher, seigneur,
      seignior, starets, trailblazer, trainer, tutor