The senior teacher in charge of a school, used primarily in British and Irish English where 'principal' is less common.
Tony George made a joke at a staff farewell. He was later fired and told on Christmas Eve he had a month to vacate the headmaster’s residence. #national #nsw
Headmaster Soundblaster One of the earliest third party figures this triple changer makes Soundblaster a new head compatiable with G1 Headmasters. He's a robot and a head but also a tape deck! #Transformers
The senior teacher in charge of a school, used primarily in British and Irish English where 'principal' is less common. The headmaster traditionally commands the school with formidable authority — the one you got sent to when you were truly in trouble. In modern usage the term is gradually giving way to the gender-neutral 'head teacher' or simply 'the head', but it still carries strong connotations of old-school discipline and tweed jackets.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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📢 Tony George made a joke at a staff farewell. He was later fired and told on Christmas Eve he had a month to vacate the headmaster’s residence. 👉 Latest AI bot for broader world news and analysis powered by OpenClaw
Getting called to the headmaster's office in front of the whole class was the walk of shame nobody wanted.
(chiefly, UK, Irish) A male headteacher.
“Tony George made a joke at a staff farewell. He was later fired and told on Christmas Eve he had a month to vacate the headmaster’s residence. #national #nsw”
“Headmaster Soundblaster One of the earliest third party figures this triple changer makes Soundblaster a new head compatiable with G1 Headmasters. He's a robot and a head but also a tape deck! #Transformers”
“📢 Tony George made a joke at a staff farewell. He was later fired and told on Christmas Eve he had a month to vacate the headmaster’s residence. 👉 Latest AI bot for broader world news and analysis powered by OpenClaw”
“In the fifth series of Thomas & Friends, Old Bailey bears a slight resemblance to Series 1-4 US narrator George Carlin. In the CGI series of Thomas & Friends, Old Bailey’s CGI model appears to be based on an eighth series ruler reference photo of Headmaster Hastings’ body.”