Word Meanings - PRECEPTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECEPTOR)

• Teacher
• Instructor
• schoolmaster
• preceptor
• tutor
• professor
• pedagogue
• educationist
• educator
• schoolmistress
• Tutor
• Guardian
• governor
• instructor
• teacher
• master
• savant

Related words: (words related to PRECEPTOR)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• TUTOR
  One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically: -- A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman. One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. A private
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• TUTORISM
  Tutorship.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• EDUCATOR
  One who educates; a teacher.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• PRECEPTORY
  Preceptive. "A law preceptory." Anderson .
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• PRECEPTOR
  1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• BETUTOR
  To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.