headmaster

English

Etymology

head +‎ master.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdˌmæstɚ/
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)

Noun

headmaster (plural headmasters)

(chiefly Britain) A male school principal.

Usage notes

The term is gender-specific, and refers to a male in the position. A female in the same role would be called a headmistress. In the United States, the shortened version of 'master' was used in some universities to refer to the faculty leader of a residential space regardless of gender.

Synonyms

headteacher (UK, gender-neutral)
principal (US, gender-neutral)

Translations

the most senior master in a school (male)

Arabic: مُدِير‎ m (mudīr)
Bulgarian: директор (bg) m (direktor)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 校長 (zh), 校长 (zh) (xiàozhǎng)
Finnish: rehtori (fi)
French: directeur (fr) m, principal (fr) m (collège), proviseur (fr) m (lycée)
German: Schulleiter (de) m
Greek: διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
Greenlandic: atuarfiit pisortaat, atuarfiup pisortaa
Hebrew: מְנַהֵל‎ m (menahél)
Hungarian: igazgató (hu)
Irish: uachtarán m, ardmháistir m
Japanese: 校長 (ja) (こうちょう, kōchō)

Korean: 교장 (ko) (gyojang) (校長 (ko))
Manx: ard-vainshtyr m, ard-ynseyder m, ard-er-ynsee m
Portuguese: diretor (pt) m
Romanian: director (ro) m
Russian: дире́ктор (ru) m (diréktor)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: директор m, равнатељ m

Roman: director m, ravnatelj (sh) m
Spanish: director (es)
Swedish: rektor (sv) c
Thai: ครูใหญ่ (kruu-yài)
Vietnamese: hiệu trưởng (vi) (校長)
Welsh: prifathro (cy) m

Anagrams

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