# teacher

Pronunciation: US say "TEE-chur" /ˈtit͡ʃɚ/; UK say "TEE-chuh" /ˈtiːt͡ʃə/

## Noun

1. A person who teaches others, especially someone employed in a school to instruct students.
   - Simple: A person who helps others learn, often in a school.
   - _The teacher spent years helping struggling readers gain confidence._
   - _Every teacher at the school attended the morning training session._
2. Something, such as past experience, that serves as an indication of what to expect or as a lesson.
   - Simple: A sign or lesson that shows you something important.
   - _Failure is often a better teacher than success, because it makes you look closely at what went wrong._
   - _History can be a patient teacher, though few leaders seem willing to sit through its lessons._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the office of the Aaronic priesthood above deacon and below priest, open to young men from the year they turn fourteen.
- (noun) The index finger, the first finger of the hand, beside the thumb.

## Origin

From Middle English techere, formed from the verb "teach" plus the suffix "-er," meaning one who teaches.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/teacher (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).