educationist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A specialist in the theory of education.
Example Sentences
- "And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly."
- "In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone."
- "The educationist Ian Gilbert, in his book Essential Motivation in the Classroom, tells a possibly apocryphal story of a school in which revision notes were all in the form of mind maps."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin ēducātiōder. English education Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English educationist From education + -ist.