The role or position of headmaster.
The role or position of headmaster.
He knew where he lived, for he addressed a monthly pay cheque to him. He did not even know what disease he was suffering from. That was bad. Bad headmastership.
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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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(British) The position of a headmaster or headmistress.
The position of a head or chief.
(chiefly, UK, Irish) A male headteacher.
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.
(informal, rare, mostly, India) headmaster.