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headmaster or fem headmistress Noun the principal of a school
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headmaster or headmistress noun principal, head, head teacher, rector USAGE The general trend of nonsexist language is to find a term which can apply to both sexes equally, as in the use of actor to refer to both men and women. This being so, head teacher is usually preferable to the gender-specific terms headmaster and headmistress. Translations |
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It was united by long tradition to the Cathedral: its headmaster was an honorary Canon, and a past headmaster was the Archdeacon. This, I recognize, is from the headmaster, and the headmaster's an awful bore. It was written by Nicholas Udall, headmaster first of Eton and then of Westminster, for the boys of one or other school. |
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