What does "pedagogue" mean?
Pedagogue: A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
Additional senses
- 2.One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.
- 3.To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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