headmaster

English

Etymology

head +‎ master.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)

Synonyms

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

Noun

headmaster (plural headmasters)

1. (chiefly UK) A male school principal.

Translations

The most senior master in a school

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 校长 (cmn)

• Finnish: rehtori (fi)
• Greek: διευθυντής (el) (diefthintís) m
• Greenlandic: atuarfiit pisortaat (kl), atuarfiup pisortaa (kl)
• Hebrew: מנהל (he) m
• Hungarian: igazgató (hu)

• Irish: uachtarán (ga) m, ardmháistir (ga) m
• Manx: ard-vainshtyr (gv) m, ard-ynseyder (gv) m, ard-er-ynsee (gv) m
• Romanian: director de școală (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian: director (sh) m, ravnatelj (sh) m
• Swedish: rektor (sv) c
• Vietnamese: hiệu trưởng (vi)
• Welsh: prifathro (cy) m

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.

Anagrams

• headstream