pedagogue

  1. Noun.  A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  2. Noun.  A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
  3. Noun.  (archaic) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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