PEDAGOGUE

educator, pedagogue, pedagog

(noun) someone who educates young people

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

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.

Verb

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

To teach.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ped"a*gogue, n. Etym: [F. pédagogue, L. paedagogus, Gr. Page a servant, Agent.]

1. (Gr. Antiq.)

Definition: A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

2. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

3. One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

Ped"a*gogue, v. t. Etym: [Cf. L. paedagogare to instruct.]

Definition: To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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