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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
educator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
▪ Then the question of social purpose once again became a relevant and important theme for adult educators.
▪ This is the major challenge facing adult educators today, the extent to which they can actively assist this process.
■ NOUN
aids
▪ Internal AIDS educators or resource people need not be medical specialists.
health
▪ This may or may not include the present health promotion and education work of health educators as we now understand it.
▪ This is a job for all of us-the media, health educators, teachers, politicians, the church.
▪ I take pride in my work-particularly my work as a health educator.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most educators agree that intimidating children is not the best way to encourage them to learn.
▪ Professor Taylor is generally recognized as one of the state's most respected educators.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adult educators in all sectors have attempted to make access to existing facilities easier; and/or special programmes have been developed.
▪ Although an educator and a parent, I can not claim to be an expert.
▪ And more than this, the law should adopt the role of community educator.
▪ Instructional changes were limited and uneven, and educators largely viewed the program as an add-on.
▪ The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers.
▪ There are various symptoms that should alert educators that some form of abuse or neglect is taking place.
▪ They were 79 strong, future doctors, lawyers, educators, politicians, captains of industry.
▪ Why do development communicators and educators need to think about women?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Educator

Educator \Ed"u*ca`tor\, n. [L.] One who educates; a teacher.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
educator

1560s, "one who nourishes or rears;" 1670s, "one who trains or instructs," from Latin educator (in classical Latin, "a foster father," then also "a tutor"), agent noun from past participle stem of educare (see educate). Latin educatrix meant "a nurse."

Wiktionary
educator

n. 1 A person distinguished for his/her educational work 2 A teacher 3 (rfv-sense) A person that accepts responsibility for the educating process and educates by supporting and assisting an educand.

WordNet
educator

n. someone who educates young people [syn: pedagogue]

Usage examples of "educator".

Miss Belle Butler, a popular educator, who unites with her husband in every measure for the true elevation of the Negro.

Negro teacher and educator might as well admit the fact of their incompetency and with the admission bend themselves with renewed energy to hard study, laying aside all bogus degrees and meaningless titles, and acknowledge the fact that they are yet intellectual pigmies.

In what then is the Negro constitutionally a better educator of the Negro?

Ralza Morse Manly, of Vermont, a distinguished educator in the North as well as the pioneer educator in Virginia among the Negro race.

James Porter, of that city, well remembered as educator and musician, as one who loved his fellow man, and was eager to serve his race in any capacity.

To the Negro youth of the land it should be put, as a beneficent educator, next to our schools.

In France, Napoleon makes the press, which has become in civilized countries an educator of the people, the mere instrument of his will.

This question belongs primarily to ethics, or the science of right living, to which the educator must turn for his solution.

For the educator, therefore, psychology may be limited to a study of the definite states of consciousness which arise through an apperceiving act of attention, that is, to our states of experience and the processes connected therewith.

For this reason the educator should at least not violate the general principles governing all mental activity.

It is a question, however, whether the modern educator may not often be too negligent concerning the direct problem of the ability to recall knowledge.

Were there no educator, all souls would remain savage, and were it not for.

To each created thing, the Ancient Sovereignty hath portioned out its own perfection, its particular virtue and special excellence, so that each in its degree may become a symbol denoting the sublimity of the true Educator of humankind, and that each, even as a crystalline mirror, may tell of the grace and splendour of the Sun of Truth.

He has the animal side as well as the angelic side, and the aim of an educator is to so train human souls that their angelic aspect may overcome their animal side.

If the educator be incompetent, the educated will be correspondingly lacking.