preceptor

Definition: (noun) Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford).
Synonyms: don.
Usage: Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
Discuss

Source: The Free Dictionary

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