"headteacher" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: headteachers [plural]
Etymology: head + teacher Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|teacher}} head + teacher Head templates: {{en-noun}} headteacher (plural headteachers)
  1. (UK) The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and administration. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: principal, head, headmaster [masculine], headmistress [feminine], school director, head teacher Hypernyms: teacher Translations (The most senior teacher in a school): মুহতামিম (muhtamim) (Bengali), director [masculine] (Catalan), directora [feminine] (Catalan), 校長 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 校长 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 校長 (Chinese Cantonese), 校长 (haau⁶ zoeng²) (Chinese Cantonese), 校長 (Chinese Mandarin), 校长 (xiàozhǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), schoolhoofd [neuter] (Dutch), skúlastjóri [masculine] (Faroese), johtajaopettaja (Finnish), director [masculine] (Galician), directora [feminine] (Galician), Schulleiter [masculine] (German), igazgató (Hungarian), iskolaigazgató (Hungarian), kepala sekolah (Indonesian), guru kepala (Indonesian), 校長 (kōchō) (alt: こうちょう) (Japanese), 교장 (gyojang) (Korean), guru besar (Malay), ard-ynseyder [masculine] (Manx), ard-vainshtyr [masculine] (Manx), ard-venainshtyr [masculine] (Manx), ard-er-ynsee [masculine] (Manx), ard-ven-ynsee [feminine] (Manx), diretor [masculine] (Portuguese), diretora [feminine] (Portuguese), director [masculine] (Romanian), directoare [feminine] (Romanian), rector [masculine] (Romanian), ulong-guro (Tagalog), ulungguro (Tagalog), hiệu trưởng (Vietnamese), prifathro [masculine] (Welsh), prifathrawes [feminine] (Welsh)

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      "sense": "The most senior teacher in a school",
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      "sense": "The most senior teacher in a school",
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      "sense": "The most senior teacher in a school",
      "word": "hiệu trưởng"
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      "sense": "The most senior teacher in a school",
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      "word": "prifathro"
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      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "The most senior teacher in a school",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prifathrawes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "headteacher"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.