educator

UK/ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/US/ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,742 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: educators

An educator is somebody whose work is teaching. A distinguished educator.

It is broader than teacher and covers anybody who designs or leads learning. Educator is American in flavour and is used in Britain mostly in job titles.

Definitions of educator

1nouneducatorSomebody whose work is teaching.C1
“She spent forty years as an educator and never ran a classroom.”

educator is a person.

Where it comes from

Latin educator comes from educare, to bring up or train.

Proto-Indo-European
*dewk-
Latin
ēducātor
English, today
educator

From Latin ēducātor. by surface analysis, educate + -or.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

educator in the wild

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
Teacher
The occupation is called physics educator or physics teacher.
Physics education
A nurse educator is a nurse who teaches and prepares licensed practical nurses (LPN) and registered nurses (RN) for entry into practice positions.
Nurse educator
Nurse educators can choose to teach in a specialized field of their choosing.
Nurse educator
The professionals who train prospective teachers are called teacher educators (or, in some contexts, teacher trainers).
Teacher education

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