Definition of Headmaster

1. Noun. Presiding officer of a school.

Exact synonyms: Master, Schoolmaster
Specialized synonyms: Housemaster
Generic synonyms: Head, Head Teacher, Principal, School Principal
Derivative terms: Headmastership, Mastership

Definition of Headmaster

1. Noun. ''(Chiefly British.)'' A male school principal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Headmaster

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headmaster

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Literary usage of Headmaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Commissioners by Royal Commission on Secondary Education, Great Britain (1895)
"It is the almost invariable custom that the new headmaster accepts all such of the old staff as desire to stay ; and in any case where circumstances seem to ..."

2. Moral Instruction and Training in Schools: Report of an International by Michael Sadler (1908)
"JC Nicol, Headmaster of the Portsmouth Grammar School. ... Robert Race, Headmaster of Cheetham Higher Elementary School, Manchester. ..."

3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"DEAN FARRAR AS Headmaster. BY HIS OLD PUPIL, JDR IN trying to recall my recollections of Dean Farrar as headmaster of Marlborough College ..."

4. Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by Ernest Grey Sandford (1906)
"CHAPTER II Headmaster AND BOYS Reminiscences by Mr. H. Lee Warner, Mr. BE Hammond, ... loss caused by emptying boarding- houses, came the new Headmaster. ..."

5. The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay (1920)
"THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE • • • CHAPTER I THE Headmaster FIRST of all there is the Headmaster of Fiction. He is invariably called "The Doctor," and he ..."

6. A History of Warwick School with Notices of the Collegiate Church, Gilds by Arthur Francis Leach (1906)
"William Theodore Keeling was appointed headmaster in November, and took over ... Mr. Keeling is himself the son of a headmaster whose name is famous in the ..."

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