Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male teacher or professor in charge of a residence hall at a school or college.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The master or head of a house or household.
- noun In English public schools, a master having supervision and control of the boys residing in one of the houses or halls belonging to the school.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
teacher who is in charge of ahouse at aboarding school
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse
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Examples
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(Though years later, reading the autobiography, Abu suddenly recalled his housemaster Mr. Wilson ...).
Archive 2005-10-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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"His authority did not depend on bullying," recalls his housemaster, Rockwell.
THE WASP'S NEST 2007
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(Though years later, reading the autobiography, Abu suddenly recalled his housemaster Mr. Wilson ...).
Burgess Biographied Sharon Bakar 2005
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Jonathan Bailey as his sole protector and Nicholas Farrell as his clerical housemaster provide exemplary support in a play that stirs disquieting memories of adolescent angst.
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It is staffed by "guardians" who have the quasi-parental function of the boarding school housemaster or mistress: these worthies bear the knowledge of their charges' fate as best they can.
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It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.”
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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As we entered Mogg House (Gordon Clifton-Mogg, housemaster), the weight of the nineteenth century settled around my shoulders like a shroud.
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My father shook hands with our welcoming committee as if he, not I, were matriculating, and a few moments of chat with headmaster and housemaster ensued.
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