headteacher

See also: head teacher

English

Alternative forms

• head teacher

Etymology

head +‎ teacher

Noun

headteacher (plural headteachers)

1. (UK) 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.

Synonyms

• principal
• head
• headmaster m
• headmistress f
• school director

Hypernyms

• teacher

Translations

The most senior teacher in a school

• Bengali: মুহতামিম (bn) (muhtamim)
• Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 校長／校长 (haau⁶ zoeng²)

  Hokkien: 校長／校长 (zh-min-nan) (hāu-tiúⁿ)

  Mandarin: 校長／校长 (zh) (xiàozhǎng)

• Dutch: schoolhoofd (nl) n
• Faroese: skúlastjóri m
• Finnish: johtajaopettaja
• Galician: director (gl) m, directora f
• German: Schulleiter (de) m
• Hungarian: igazgató (hu), iskolaigazgató (hu)
• Indonesian: kepala sekolah (id), guru kepala (id)
• Japanese: 校長 (ja) (こうちょう, kōchō)
• Korean: 교장 (ko) (gyojang)
• Malay: guru besar (ms)
• 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

Further reading

• head teacher on Wikipedia.Wikipedia