EDUCATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does educator mean? 

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

1. someone who educates young people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDUCATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who educates young people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue

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

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

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

lector; lecturer; reader (a public lecturer at certain universities)

head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

schoolmaster (any person (or institution) who acts as an educator)

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

academic; academician; faculty member (an educator who works at a college or university)

Instance hyponyms:

McGuffey; William Holmes McGuffey (United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873))

John Witherspoon; Witherspoon (American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794))

Maria Montesorri; Montessori (Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952))

Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Moynihan (United States politician and educator (1927-2003))

James Naismith; Naismith (United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939))

Carl Orff; Orff (German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982))

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Elizabeth Peabody; Peabody (educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894))

Pitman; Sir Isaac Pitman (English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897))

Anne Mansfield Sullivan; Anne Sullivan; Sullivan (United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936))

Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington (United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915))

Andrew D. White; Andrew Dickson White; White (United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918))

Emma Hart Willard; Willard (United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870))

Horace Mann; Mann (United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859))

Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell (United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943))

Laney; Lucy Craft Laney (United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933))

Hutchins; Robert Maynard Hutchins (United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977))

Hopkins; Mark Hopkins (United States educator and theologian (1802-1887))

Gallaudet; Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851))

Friedrich Froebel; Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel; Froebel (German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852))

Dewey; John Dewey (United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952))

Comenius; Jan Amos Komensky; John Amos Comenius (Czech educational reformer (1592-1670))

Carnegie; Dale Carnegie (United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955))

Braille; Louis Braille (French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852))

Bethune; Mary McLeod Bethune (United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955))

Derivation:

educate (give an education to)

 Context examples 

The benefit is greater if the training is guided by an educator, according to recent research conducted at the University of Granada.

(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)

It is required to become an advanced practice nurse and is considered an entry-level degree for nurse educators and managers.

(Master of Science in Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

It also might be used by educators to identify what might be giving a student trouble when learning a foreign language.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

BioCarta offers an easy and dynamic forum for information exchange and collaboration between researchers, educators and students.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

It was developed by NOAA to help policymakers, educators and the public more clearly grasp how quickly this warming influence is increasing.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

Nurse educators work in various settings, including colleges/universities, community colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, private practice, etc.

(Nurse Educator, NCI Thesaurus)

This acknowledgment comprises about 4-6 years of university study in total and is a degree conferred by American and Canadian institutions for educators moving on in their field.

(Master of Education, NCI Thesaurus)

An advanced practice RN who functions as a health care provider, educator, consultant, researcher, leader/administrator and/or case manager.

(Certified Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

The advanced practice nurse demonstrates leadership as a consultant, educator, administrator and researcher.

(Advanced practice nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

Its mission is to communicate accurate information about cancer and NCI activities to a wide array of audiences, including: cancer patients, family members, health care providers, community health educators, advocates, Congress, the media, and the general public.

(Office of Communications, NCI Thesaurus)