n. | 1. | One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. |
2. | One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. |
Noun | 1. | teacher - a person whose occupation is teaching Synonyms: instructor |
2. | teacher - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher" |