Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A schoolteacher; an educator.
- noun One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To teach; especially, to teach with the air of a pedagogue.
- noun A teacher of children; one whose occupation is the instruction of children; a schoolmaster: now used, generally with a sense of contempt, for a dogmatic and narrow-minded teacher.
- noun A schoolroom, or an apartment set apart as a schoolroom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
- noun A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
- noun One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
- transitive verb obsolete To play the pedagogue toward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
teacher orinstructor ofchildren ; one whoseoccupation is toteach the young. - noun A
pedant ; one who by teaching has become overlyformal orpedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of ateacher . - noun archaic A
slave who led themaster 's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who educates young people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Unless I’m with Sammy, and then I am “nauseated,” because he likes to play at what he calls a pedagogue and I call a smartass.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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I do not need take philosophical guidance and suggestion, nor instructions on sexual motivation, from someone who thinks that a pedagogue is a kiddy fiddler.
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And this is not because teaching is laborious -- though it _is_ laborious, and thankless, too, beyond all other occupations; but because a number and variety of causes, into which we need not inquire, have combined to throw ridicule upon him, who is derisively called the pedagogue -- for most men would rather be shot at, than laughed at.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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The pedagogue was the constant attendant of the boy.
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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Villeroy, whom Henry was wont to call the pedagogue of the council, went about sighing dismally, wishing himself dead, and perpetually ejaculating, "Ho! poor France, how much hast thou still to suffer!"
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Villeroy, whom Henry was wont to call the pedagogue of the council, went about sighing dismally, wishing himself dead, and perpetually ejaculating, "Ho! poor France, how much hast thou still to suffer!"
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Villeroy, whom Henry was wont to call the pedagogue of the council, went about sighing dismally, wishing himself dead, and perpetually ejaculating, "Ho! poor France, how much hast thou still to suffer!"
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Anyway as you don't seem to know the difference between a paedophile and a 'pedagogue', perhaps it is not worth pursuing this debate.
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By appearing to endorse the building of a mosque and Islamic cultural center at the threshold of Ground Zero, Barack Obama has placed himself in the "pedagogue" category.
Dominique Moisi: Obama the Pedagogue Versus Sarkozy the Demagogue? Dominique Moisi 2010
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By appearing to endorse the building of a mosque and Islamic cultural center at the threshold of Ground Zero, Barack Obama has placed himself in the "pedagogue" category.
Dominique Moisi: Obama the Pedagogue Versus Sarkozy the Demagogue? 2010
brtom commented on the word pedagogue
-- Getououthat, you bloody old pedagogue! the editor said in recognition.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007
gootnbewg commented on the word pedagogue
He's a windbag and a pedagogue!
January 8, 2011