DISCIPLINARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disciplinarian mean? 

• DISCIPLINARIAN (noun)
  The noun DISCIPLINARIAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

  Familiarity information: DISCIPLINARIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCIPLINARIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

disciplinarian; martinet; moralist

Hypernyms ("disciplinarian" is a kind of...):

authoritarian; dictator (a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disciplinarian"):

stickler (someone who insists on something)

 Context examples 

Mr. Waldron was a strict disciplinarian with a gift of acid humor, as exemplified upon the gentleman with the red tie, which made it perilous to interrupt him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)