pedagogue
Noun
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Noun
pedagogue (plural pedagogues)
- A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
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- Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
- A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
- Russian: педа́нт
- Portuguese: pedagogo
pedagogue (pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing; past and past participle pedagogued)
- To teach.
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