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Pedant vs Educator - What's the difference?

pedant | educator | Related terms |

Pedant is a related term of educator.


As nouns the difference between pedant and educator

is that pedant is schoolmaster while educator is a person distinguished for his/her educational work.

As an adjective pedant

is pedantic.

pedant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
  • * , vol. 1 ch. 24:
  • I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante''] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of ''Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
  • A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
  • (label) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • Derived terms

    * pedantic * pedantry

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse pedant' with '''pendant''' or ' pennant .

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pedant") *

    educator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person distinguished for his/her educational work
  • A person who, or a thing which, educates
  • A teacher
  • A person that accepts responsibility for the educating process and educates by supporting and assisting an educand.
  • Anagrams

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