Meaning

A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young..

Definitions by Sense

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
4. To teach.

Example Sentences

Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

"No, that won't work." Reynders sighed, not in frustration — she was an excellent pedagogue, and never got frustrated while instructing — but in mental exhaustion. This project was testing the limits of what she could handle, in her state, though that was nothing compared to the number it was doing on Udo's head. "But it doesn't need to work. ATCP doesn't ossify, that's why it's armageddon-proof. We'd never be able to make this function if we were using standard protocols."

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Word Forms

• pedagogues
• pædagogue
• paedagogue
• pedagog
• pedagoguing
• pedagogued

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Use pedagogue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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