Associations to the word «Preceptor»

Wiktionary

PRECEPTOR, noun. The headmaster or principal of a school, especially a private school.
PRECEPTOR, noun. A teacher or tutor.

Dictionary definition

PRECEPTOR, noun. Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats