English
Alternative forms
Etymology
head + teacher
Noun
headteacher (plural headteachers)
- The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and administration.
- I had to go and see the headteacher about my attitude.
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Translations
The most senior teacher in a school
- Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 校長/校长 (haau6 zoeng2), 校长 (haau6 zoeng2)
- Mandarin: 校長/校长 (zh) (xiàozhǎng), 校长 (zh) (xiàozhǎng)
- Min Nan: 校長/校长 (zh-min-nan), 校长 (hāu-tiúⁿ)
- Hungarian: igazgató (hu), iskolaigazgató (hu)
- Indonesian: kepala sekolah (id), guru kepala (id)
- Japanese: 校長 (ja) (こうちょう, kōchō)
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- Korean: 교장 (ko) (gyojang)
- Malay: guru besar
- Manx: ard-ynseyder m, ard-vainshtyr m, ard-venainshtyr m, ard-er-ynsee m, ard-ven-ynsee f
- Portuguese: diretor (pt) m, diretora f
- Romanian: director (ro) m, directoare (ro) f, rector (ro) m
- Tagalog: ulong-guro, ulungguro
- Vietnamese: hiệu trưởng (vi)
- Welsh: prifathro (cy) m, prifathrawes (cy) f
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