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rector

noun

as in schoolmaster

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Recent Examples of rector More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release. —

Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector. —

Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025 Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. —

Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025 During that time, Gau was also rector and minister of the high school's Jesuit community. —

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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.

— Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.

— Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025