different between schoolmaster vs dominie

English

Alternative forms

• scholemaster (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school +? master.

Pronunciation

Noun

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

1. A male teacher.
2. Male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
3. Anything that teaches.

   The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

Derived terms

• schoolmasterish
• schoolmasterly

Related terms

• schoolmistress
• headmaster / headmistress

Translations

Verb

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

English

Etymology

Alteration of domine, with spelling changed to reflect pronunciation. Doublet of dom, dominus, and don.

Noun

dominie (plural dominies)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) A schoolmaster, teacher.
   • 1858, James Hogg, Titan (volume 27, page 306)

     In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper.

   • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, XXI:

     the sign-painter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the proper condition on Examination Evening he would "manage the thing".

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:

     when it was time for the Strachan bairns to pass the end of the Cuddiestoun road on their way to school down there she was waiting and gave the paper to the eldest, the quean Marget, and told her to show it to the Dominie and ask him what it might mean.

2. (US) A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Related terms

• donzel

Scots

Etymology

From Latin domine, vocative singular of dominus (“lord", "sir", "head of household”); from domus (“house”) + -inus.

Noun

dominie (plural dominies)

1. schoolmaster, teacher