SCHOOLMAID
School"maid`, n.
Defn: A schoolgirl. Shak.
SCHOOLMAN
School"man`, n.; pl. Schoolmen (.
Defn: One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediæval universities and schools of divinity.
SCHOOLMASTER
School"mas`ter, n.
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, — a person less imposing, — in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.
2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us into Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
SCHOOLMATE
School"mate`, n.
Defn: A pupil who attends the same school as another.