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单词 educatress
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educatressn.

Brit. /ˈɛdjᵿkeɪtrᵻs/, /ˈɛdʒᵿkeɪtrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɛdʒəˌkeɪtrəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: educator n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < educator n. + -ess suffix1 (see -tress suffix), originally after German Erzieherin female educator (1566; < Erzieher male educator ( < erziehen to educate (see atee v.) + -er -er suffix1) + -in, suffix forming feminine agent nouns).
Now rare.
A female educator. Also figurative.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > female
teacheressa1382
doctricea1475
instructrice?1529
doctress1549
doctrix1604
instructress1608
doctoress1626
lectoress1634
introductress1657
preceptress1712
educatress1800
1800 W. Render tr. F. Schiller Armenian I. 220 Opinion is our nurse and educatress [Ger. Erzieherin] in infancy.
1805 Ann. Rev. 3 544 This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula.
1851 Miss Masterman Antony I. i. ii. 295 The educatresses of the present day have destroyed the half of our English women in the bud, by their stiffening, starching principles.
1910 W. Hendrick Joysome Hist. Educ. (ed. 2) 7 Rebekah was an early Jewish educatress whose work has lasted to the present day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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