| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teacher |
| Synonyms: | docent, instructor, lector, professor, reader, speaker |
| Main Entry: | educator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teacher |
| Synonyms: | coach, dean, department head, educationist, instructor, lecturer, mentor, monitor, professor, schoolteacher, trainer, tutor |
| Main Entry: | fellow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female colleague, friend |
| Synonyms: | assistant, associate, cohort, companion, compeer, comrade, concomitant, confrere, consort, coordinate, counterpart*, coworker, double, duplicate, equal, instructor, lecturer, match, mate, member, partner, peer, professor, reciprocal, twin |
| Antonyms: | enemy |
| Main Entry: | instructor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who educates |
| Synonyms: | adviser, coach, demonstrator, exponent, guide, lecturer, mentor, pedagogue, preceptor, professor, teacher, trainer, tutor |
| Antonyms: | pupil, student |
| Main Entry: | minister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge of church |
| Synonyms: | abbot, archbishop, archdeacon, bishop, chaplain, clergy, clergyperson, cleric, clerical, clerk, confessor, curate, deacon, dean, diocesan, divine, ecclesiastic, lecturer, missionary, monk, parson, pastor, preacher, prelate, priest, pulpiteer, rector, reverend, shepherd, vicar |
| Notes: | a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader |
| Main Entry: | orator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speaker |
| Synonyms: | declaimer, lector, lecturer, pontificator, preacher, public speaker, reciter, rhetorician, sermonizer |
| Main Entry: | professor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who teaches college courses |
| Synonyms: | assistant, brain*, educator, egghead, faculty member, fellow, instructor, lecturer, pedagogue, principal, prof, pundit, quant, rocket scientist, sage, savant, teacher, tutor |
| Antonyms: | pupil, student |
| Main Entry: | speaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talker |
| Synonyms: | after-dinner speaker, announcer, elocutionist, keynoter, lecturer, mouthpiece, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker, spokesperson |
| Main Entry: | teacher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who educates |
| Synonyms: | abecedary, adviser, assistant, coach, disciplinarian, educator, faculty member, guide, instructor, lecturer, mentor, pedagogue, preceptor, professor, pundit, scholar, schoolteacher, supervisor, teach*, trainer, tutor |
| Antonyms: | pupil, student |