Pedagogue

1. (n.) A schoolteacher; an educator.

2. (n.) A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

3. (n.) One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.

4. (v. t.) To play the pedagogue toward.

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