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Definition of Private instructor
1. Noun. A person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.).
Category relationships: Singing, Vocalizing
Specialized synonyms: Crammer
Generic synonyms: Instructor, Teacher
Derivative terms: Tutorial, Tutorship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Instructor
Literary usage of Private instructor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference by John Franklin Jameson, James William Buel (1901)
"He was graduated at Harvard in 1798, for the next two years was a private instructor
in Richmond, studied theology at Cain- bridge and was settled over the ..."
2. Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1904 by Brown University (1905)
"... 1890-92; private instructor classics; instructor Greek and Latin, University
school, Providence, RI, 1898-99; professor Latin language and literature, ..."
3. The Educational Journal of Virginia by Educational Association of Virginia, Virginia Dept. of Public Instruction, Dept. of Public Instruction, Richard McAllister Smith (1886)
"The private instructor is free to conform entirely to the needs and wishes of
... The private instructor teaches pupils who frequently have no other study, ..."
4. The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia by John Henry Augustus Bomberger, Johann Jakob Herzog (1860)
"Uhlhorn, Dr., private instructor in Göttingen. Ullman, Dr., Prelate in Carlsruhe.
... Vogel, Licentiate, private instructor in Jena. Yogi, Dr., Ord. Prof, ..."
5. The School and the Schoolmaster: A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers by Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson (1842)
"The pupil of a private instructor depends too much on him, and too little on
himself. 3. Such a pupil is deprived of a great amount of oblique or indirect ..."
6. The Peninsular Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences edited by Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher (1858)
"Accordingly, it is universally conceded that a private instructor is needed to
supplement the admitted deficiencies of the public schools in this work of ..."
7. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"Perhaps I he term private instructor does not convey the exact meaning of the
office alluded to, ..."
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