head teacher

Questions about head teacher

What does head teacher mean?

head teacher means "the educator who has executive authority for a school".

What is another word for head teacher?

Close synonyms include principal, school principal, head. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head teacher a common word?

head teacher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.