different between teacher vs dominie

English

Etymology

From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach +? -er. More at teach.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tit???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ti?t???/
• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
• Hyphenation: teach?er

Noun

teacher (plural teachers)

1. A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.
2. The index finger; the forefinger.
3. An indication; a lesson.
4. (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.

Synonyms

• (person who teaches): preceptor
• (index finger): See Thesaurus:index finger

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cheater, hectare, rechate, recheat, reteach

Spanish

Alternative forms

• tícher

Etymology

Borrowed from English teacher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tit??e?/, [?t?i.t??e?]

Noun

teacher m or f (plural teachers)

1. a teacher of English

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