noun

granddaughter

grand·daugh·ter [granddaughter granddaughters]   [ˈɡrændɔːtə(r)]    [ˈɡrændɔːtər]  noun

a daughter of your son or daughter

compare  grandson

grandson

grand·son [grandson grandsons]   [ˈɡrænsʌn]    [ˈɡrænsʌn]  noun

a son of your son or daughter

compare  granddaughter

grandchild

grand·child [grandchild grandchildren]   [ˈɡræntʃaɪld]    [ˈɡræntʃaɪld]  noun (pl. grand·chil·dren)

a child of your son or daughter

moped

moped [moped mopeds]   [ˈməʊped]    [ˈmoʊped]  noun
a motorcycle with a small engine and also pedals 
Word Origin:

1950s: from Swedish, from (trampcykel med) mo(tor och) ped(aler) ‘pedal cycle with motor and pedals’.

corner

cor·ner [corner corners cornered cornering] noun, verb   [ˈkɔːnə(r)]    [ˈkɔːrnər] 

noun  

OF BUILDING/OBJECT/SHAPE
1. a part of sth where two or more sides, lines or edges join
• the four corners of a square
• Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.
• I hit my knee on the corner of the table.
• A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.

• a speck of dirt in the corner of her eye  

-CORNERED

2. (in adjectives) with the number of corners mentioned; involving the number of groups mentioned
• a three-cornered hat

• a three-cornered fight  

OF ROOM/BOX

3. the place inside a room or a box where two sides join; the area around this place
• There was a television in the far corner of the room.

• a corner table/seat/cupboard  

OF ROADS

4. a place where two streets join
• There was a group of youths standing on the street corner.
• Turn right at the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards.
• There's a hotel on/at the corner of my street.

• The wind hit him as he turned the corner.

5. a sharp bend in a road

• The car was taking the corners too fast.  

AREA/REGION

6. a region or an area of a place (sometimes used for one that is far away or difficult to reach)
• She lives in a quiet corner of rural Yorkshire.
• Students come here from the four corners of the world.

• He knew every corner of the old town.  

DIFFICULT SITUATION

7. usually singular a difficult situation
• to back/drive/force sb into a corner
• They had got her in a corner, and there wasn't much she could do about it.

• He was used to talking his way out of tight corners.  

IN SPORT

8. (in sports such as football ( soccer ) and hockey) a free kick or hit that you take from the corner of your opponent's end of the field
• to take a corner
• The referee awarded a corner.

see also  corner kick

9. (in boxing and wrestling) any of the four corners of a ring; the supporters who help in the corner
more at fight your corner at  fight  v., a tight spot/corner at  tight  
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin cornu ‘horn, tip, corner’.  
Thesaurus:
corner noun C
• There was a group of youths standing on the street corner.
bend • • turn • • twist • • zigzag • |BrE hairpin bend • |AmE hairpin curve/turn •
around/round/at/on a corner/bend/hairpin bend/hairpin curve
a sharp corner/bend/turn/twist
round/take a corner/bend/hairpin bend 
Example Bank:
• A white van came round the corner.
• As they turned the corner all the bags slid to one side.
• Beckham took the corner and Scholes headed it into the net.
• He found a quiet corner and got on with his work.
• He managed to force a corner.
• He parked in the far corner of the car park.
• He pushed the thought back into the darkest corner of his mind.
• He put the goalkeeper under pressure and managed to force a corner.
• He took a seat in the far corner of the cafe.
• He was used to having to talk his way out of tight corners.
• I hate coming out of that lane because it's a blind corner.
• I'm in a bit of a corner over finding staff for Friday evening.
• It's a rather sharp corner and she took it a little too fast.
• James blocked the shot but conceded a corner.
• Make sure the staircase is well lit, with no awkward corners.
• Moore took the corner.
• Put your address in the top right-hand corner of the page.
• She sat in a dark corner of the room.
• She tucked herself away in a corner and read all day.
• Smooth rounded corners make cleaning easier.
• The box had been tucked away in an odd corner of the attic.
• The waiter led us to a corner table.
• There were a lot of young men hanging about on street corners.
• They chose a table right in the corner of the restaurant.
• They had got her in a corner and there was nothing she could do about it.
• Turn right at the first corner.
• Welcome to our little corner of Philadelphia.
• a cool shady corner of the garden
• a remote corner of Afghanistan
• at the corner of West Street and Park Street
• the bank on the corner of Mount Street
• the four corners of his bed
• the local corner shop/store
• He had her backed into a corner a couple of times with new facts she didn't know.
• It is important to avoid being pushed into a corner.
• The wind hit him as he turned the corner.
• There was a large group of youths standing on the street corner.
• There's a hotel on the corner of my street.
• They had got him into a corner and there wasn't much he could do about it.
• Turn right at the corner of Avalon Road and Radnor Street.

Idioms: cut corners ▪ cut the corner ▪ round the corner ▪ see something out of the corner of your eye ▪ turn the corner 

street

street

street [street streets] noun, adjective   [striːt]    [striːt] 

noun
1. countable (abbr. St, st) a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides
• The bank is just across the street.
• to walk along/down/up the street
• the town's narrow cobbled streets
• 92nd Street
• 10 Downing Street
• He is used to being recognized in the street.
• a street map/plan of York
• street theatre/musicians
• My office is at street level (= on the ground floor).
• It's not safe to walk the streets at night.
• It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city).

see also  backstreet, high street, side street

2. singular the ideas and opinions of ordinary people, especially people who live in cities, which are considered important
• The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election.
• The word on the street is that it's not going to happen.
• Opinion on the street was divided.
more at on easy street at  easy  adj., hit the streets at  hit  v., the man (and/or woman) in the street at  man  n.  
Word Origin:
Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.  
Culture:
street names
In Britain, main roads outside towns and cities are known by numbers rather than names. An exception is the A1 from London to north-eastern England, which is often called the Great North Road. Roads that follow the line of former Roman roads also have names, e.g. the Fosse Way. If a main road passes through a town, that part of it usually has a name, often that of the place which the road goes to, e.g. London Road.
The main shopping street in a town is often called High Street, or sometimes Market Street. Many streets take their name from a local feature or building. The most common include Bridge Street, Castle Street, Church Street, Mill Street and Station Road. Some names indicate the trade that was formerly carried on in that area. Examples are Candlemaker’s Row, Cornmarket, Petticoat Lane and Sheep Street. Many streets laid out in the 19th century were named after famous people or events. These include Albert Street, Cromwell Road, Shakespeare Street, Wellington Street, Trafalgar Road and Waterloo Street. When housing estates are built, the names of the new roads in them are usually all on the same theme. Names of birds or animals are popular. Others are based on the old names for the fields that the houses were built on, e.g. Tenacres Road, The Slade and Meadow Walk. The name of a road is written on signs at each end of it, sometimes together with the local postcode.
Some streets have become so closely identified with people of a particular profession that the street name itself is immediately associated with them. In London, Harley Street has been associated with private doctors and Fleet Street with newspapers.
In the US main roads such as interstates and highways are known by numbers. Most towns and cities are laid out on a grid pattern and have long streets with avenues crossing them. Each has a number, e.g. 7th Avenue, 42nd Street. The roads are often straight and have square blocks of buildings between them. This makes it easier to find an address and also helps people to judge distance. In Manhattan, for example, Tiffany's is described as being at East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, i.e. on the corner of those two streets. The distance between West 90th Street and West 60th Street is 30 blocks.
As well as having numbers, many streets are named after people, places, local features, history and nature. In Manhattan there is Washington Street, Lexington Avenue, Liberty Street, Church Street and Cedar Street. Some streets are named after the town to which they lead. The most important street is often called Main Street. A suburb or subdivision of a city may have streets with similar names. In a subdivision of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, all the names end in ‚wood’, e.g. Balsawood Drive, Limewood Drive and Aspenwood Drive.
Some roads are called boulevards, with Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Miami's Biscayne Boulevard among the best known. Avenues usually cross streets, as in New York, but often the word is chosen as part of a name for no particular reason. Avenue and boulevard once indicated roads with trees along each side, but few have trees today. A road in the US is usually found outside cities, though Chicago uses the name for some central streets.
Some street names have particular associations: Grant Avenue in San Francisco is associated with Chinatown, Beale Street in Memphis with the blues, and Bourbon Street in New Orleans with jazz. In New York Wall Street is associated with the financial world, Madison Avenue with advertising and Broadway with theatres. 
Thesaurus:
street noun C
• I walked up the street.
road • • avenue • • lane • • alley • |especially AmE highway • |AmE boulevard •
in the street/road/avenue/lane/alley
on a street/road/highway
cross the street/road/highway
Street or road? In a town or city, street is the most usual word, although streets are often called Road, especially in British English; in the countryside the usual word is road
• a street map of London
• a road map of Britain
• 205 Woodstock Road
 
More About:
roads
Roads and streets
In a town or city, street is the most general word for a road with houses and buildings on one or both sides: ▪ a street map of London. Street is not used for roads between towns, but streets in towns are often called Road: ▪ Oxford Street ◊ ▪ Mile End Road. A road map of a country shows you the major routes between, around and through towns and cities.
Other words used in the names of streets include: Circle, Court, Crescent, Drive, Hill and Way. Avenue suggests a wide street lined with trees. A lane is a narrow street between buildings or, in BrE, a narrow country road.The high street
High street is used in BrE, especially as a name, for the main street of a town, where most shops, banks, etc. are: ▪ the record store in the High Street ◊ ▪ high street shops. In NAmE Main Street is often used as a name for this street.Larger roads
British and American English use different words for the roads that connect towns and cities. Motorways, (for example, the M57) in BrE, freeways, highways or interstates, (for example State Route 347, Interstate 94, the Long Island Expressway) in NAmE, are large divided roads built for long-distance traffic to avoid towns.
A ring road (BrE) / an outer belt (NAmE) is built around a city or town to reduce traffic in the centre. This can also be called a beltway in NAmE, especially when it refers to the road around Washington D.C. A bypass passes around a town or city rather than through the centre. 
Example Bank:
• A couple were arguing out in the street.
• Argentinians took to the streets in protest.
• Crowds thronged the streets.
• Dead bodies littered the streets.
• Gangs roamed the streets at night.
• He could see her across the street.
• He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.
• He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.
• He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack.
• He turned into a side street.
• He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.
• He works at a small store on Main Street.
• Her shocking autobiography is about to hit the streets.
• His spell in prison gained him a lot of street cred.
• I was living on 10th Street off Hudson.
• It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets.
• Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets.
• Most street names were changed under the new regime.
• Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.
• Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.
• Sales on the UK high street are in decline.
• She lives just up the street here.
• She parks her car in the street.
• She stepped out into the street.
• She was thrown onto the street.
• Spectators lined the streets.
• Take the second street on the right after the bridge.
• The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.
• The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.
• The shops had no street numbers on.
• The streets are teeming with traffic.
• The streets were packed with people shopping.
• There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.
• There's a chemist's just up the street.
• They walked along the street.
• Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.
• Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.
• We live in Barker Street.
• We turned down a dead-end street by mistake.
• You've taken the wrong street.
• a bar in a side street off Oxford Street
• a bar in a side street off the Champs-Élysées
• a charity set up to house street children
• a club just off William Street
• a painting of a typical Parisian street scene
• a plan to keep teenagers off the streets
• a rundown house in the back streets of London
• drugs with a street value of £5 million
• high-street retailers
• people dealing drugs on the street
• people engaged in informal street selling
• street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths
• streets lined with cafes
• the dense street pattern of the old town
• the street culture of working-class youth
• the town's main shopping street
• Do you have a street plan of the town?
• I met him by chance in the street.
• I spotted her on the other side of the street.
• I walked up the street as far as the post office.
• It's a medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets.
• It's not safe to walk the streets around here.
• The office is at street level.
• The streets are very busy at this time of year.
• There are no street lights in the village.
• There are several banks in the high street.

Idioms: on the street ▪ on the streets ▪ streets ahead ▪ streets are paved with gold ▪ up your street 

adjective only before noun
informal and based on the daily life of ordinary people in cities
• street sports such as skateboarding and skating
• street newspapers sold by the homeless
• street culture/dance/law
• Street sport is informal and based on whatever people want to play.  
Word Origin:

Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.

street [street streets] noun, adjective   [striːt]    [striːt]

noun

1. countable (abbr. St, st) a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides

• The bank is just across the street.

• to walk along/down/up the street

• the town's narrow cobbled streets

• 92nd Street

• 10 Downing Street

• He is used to being recognized in the street.

• a street map/plan of York

• street theatre/musicians

• My office is at street level (= on the ground floor).

• It's not safe to walk the streets at night.

• It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city).

see also  backstreet, high street, side street

2. singular the ideas and opinions of ordinary people, especially people who live in cities, which are considered important

• The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election.

• The word on the street is that it's not going to happen.

• Opinion on the street was divided.

more at on easy street at  easy  adj., hit the streets at  hit  v., the man (and/or woman) in the street at  man  n.

Word Origin:

Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.

Culture:

street names

In Britain, main roads outside towns and cities are known by numbers rather than names. An exception is the A1 from London to north-eastern England, which is often called the Great North Road. Roads that follow the line of former Roman roads also have names, e.g. the Fosse Way. If a main road passes through a town, that part of it usually has a name, often that of the place which the road goes to, e.g. London Road.

The main shopping street in a town is often called High Street, or sometimes Market Street. Many streets take their name from a local feature or building. The most common include Bridge Street, Castle Street, Church Street, Mill Street and Station Road. Some names indicate the trade that was formerly carried on in that area. Examples are Candlemaker’s Row, Cornmarket, Petticoat Lane and Sheep Street. Many streets laid out in the 19th century were named after famous people or events. These include Albert Street, Cromwell Road, Shakespeare Street, Wellington Street, Trafalgar Road and Waterloo Street. When housing estates are built, the names of the new roads in them are usually all on the same theme. Names of birds or animals are popular. Others are based on the old names for the fields that the houses were built on, e.g. Tenacres Road, The Slade and Meadow Walk. The name of a road is written on signs at each end of it, sometimes together with the local postcode.

Some streets have become so closely identified with people of a particular profession that the street name itself is immediately associated with them. In London, Harley Street has been associated with private doctors and Fleet Street with newspapers.

In the US main roads such as interstates and highways are known by numbers. Most towns and cities are laid out on a grid pattern and have long streets with avenues crossing them. Each has a number, e.g. 7th Avenue, 42nd Street. The roads are often straight and have square blocks of buildings between them. This makes it easier to find an address and also helps people to judge distance. In Manhattan, for example, Tiffany's is described as being at East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, i.e. on the corner of those two streets. The distance between West 90th Street and West 60th Street is 30 blocks.

As well as having numbers, many streets are named after people, places, local features, history and nature. In Manhattan there is Washington Street, Lexington Avenue, Liberty Street, Church Street and Cedar Street. Some streets are named after the town to which they lead. The most important street is often called Main Street. A suburb or subdivision of a city may have streets with similar names. In a subdivision of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, all the names end in ‚wood’, e.g. Balsawood Drive, Limewood Drive and Aspenwood Drive.

Some roads are called boulevards, with Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Miami's Biscayne Boulevard among the best known. Avenues usually cross streets, as in New York, but often the word is chosen as part of a name for no particular reason. Avenue and boulevard once indicated roads with trees along each side, but few have trees today. A road in the US is usually found outside cities, though Chicago uses the name for some central streets.

Some street names have particular associations: Grant Avenue in San Francisco is associated with Chinatown, Beale Street in Memphis with the blues, and Bourbon Street in New Orleans with jazz. In New York Wall Street is associated with the financial world, Madison Avenue with advertising and Broadway with theatres.

Thesaurus:

street noun C

• I walked up the street.

road • • avenue • • lane • • alley • |especially AmE highway • |AmE boulevard •

in the street/road/avenue/lane/alley

on a street/road/highway

cross the street/road/highway

Street or road? In a town or city, street is the most usual word, although streets are often called Road, especially in British English; in the countryside the usual word is road

• a street map of London

• a road map of Britain

• 205 Woodstock Road

More About:

roads

Roads and streets

In a town or city, street is the most general word for a road with houses and buildings on one or both sides: ▪ a street map of London. Street is not used for roads between towns, but streets in towns are often called Road: ▪ Oxford Street ◊ ▪ Mile End Road. A road map of a country shows you the major routes between, around and through towns and cities.

Other words used in the names of streets include: Circle, Court, Crescent, Drive, Hill and Way. Avenue suggests a wide street lined with trees. A lane is a narrow street between buildings or, in BrE, a narrow country road.The high street

High street is used in BrE, especially as a name, for the main street of a town, where most shops, banks, etc. are: ▪ the record store in the High Street ◊ ▪ high street shops. In NAmE Main Street is often used as a name for this street.Larger roads

British and American English use different words for the roads that connect towns and cities. Motorways, (for example, the M57) in BrE, freeways, highways or interstates, (for example State Route 347, Interstate 94, the Long Island Expressway) in NAmE, are large divided roads built for long-distance traffic to avoid towns.

A ring road (BrE) / an outer belt (NAmE) is built around a city or town to reduce traffic in the centre. This can also be called a beltway in NAmE, especially when it refers to the road around Washington D.C. A bypass passes around a town or city rather than through the centre.

Example Bank:

• A couple were arguing out in the street.

• Argentinians took to the streets in protest.

• Crowds thronged the streets.

• Dead bodies littered the streets.

• Gangs roamed the streets at night.

• He could see her across the street.

• He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.

• He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.

• He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack.

• He turned into a side street.

• He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.

• He works at a small store on Main Street.

• Her shocking autobiography is about to hit the streets.

• His spell in prison gained him a lot of street cred.

• I was living on 10th Street off Hudson.

• It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets.

• Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets.

• Most street names were changed under the new regime.

• Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.

• Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.

• Sales on the UK high street are in decline.

• She lives just up the street here.

• She parks her car in the street.

• She stepped out into the street.

• She was thrown onto the street.

• Spectators lined the streets.

• Take the second street on the right after the bridge.

• The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.

• The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.

• The shops had no street numbers on.

• The streets are teeming with traffic.

• The streets were packed with people shopping.

• There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.

• There's a chemist's just up the street.

• They walked along the street.

• Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.

• Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.

• We live in Barker Street.

• We turned down a dead-end street by mistake.

• You've taken the wrong street.

• a bar in a side street off Oxford Street

• a bar in a side street off the Champs-Élysées

• a charity set up to house street children

• a club just off William Street

• a painting of a typical Parisian street scene

• a plan to keep teenagers off the streets

• a rundown house in the back streets of London

• drugs with a street value of £5 million

• high-street retailers

• people dealing drugs on the street

• people engaged in informal street selling

• street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths

• streets lined with cafes

• the dense street pattern of the old town

• the street culture of working-class youth

• the town's main shopping street

• Do you have a street plan of the town?

• I met him by chance in the street.

• I spotted her on the other side of the street.

• I walked up the street as far as the post office.

• It's a medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets.

• It's not safe to walk the streets around here.

• The office is at street level.

• The streets are very busy at this time of year.

• There are no street lights in the village.

• There are several banks in the high street.

Idioms: on the street ▪ on the streets ▪ streets ahead ▪ streets are paved with gold ▪ up your street 

adjective only before noun

informal and based on the daily life of ordinary people in cities

• street sports such as skateboarding and skating

• street newspapers sold by the homeless

• street culture/dance/law

• Street sport is informal and based on whatever people want to play.

Word Origin:

Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.

(the) Street

The Street [The Street]      (infml)

a popular name for the British television soap opera Coronation Street.

pharmacy

phar·macy [pharmacy pharmacies]   [ˈfɑːməsi]    [ˈfɑːrməsi]  noun (pl. phar·macies)
1. countable a shop/store, or part of one, that sells medicines and drugs

compare  chemist, drugstore

2. countable a place in a hospital where medicines are prepared

3. uncountable the study of how to prepare medicines and drugs 
Word Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the administration of drugs): from Old French farmacie, via medieval Latin from Greek pharmakeia ‘practice of the druggist’, based on pharmakon ‘drug’.  
Example Bank:
• Research is bringing more effective new drugs to pharmacy shelves.
• The cream is available at/from/in pharmacies without a prescription.

• The ointment is available from pharmacies without prescription.

writer

writer [writer writers]   [ˈraɪtə(r)]    [ˈraɪtər]  noun
1. a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc
• writers of poetry

• a travel/cookery, etc. writer

2. a person who has written a particular thing

• the writer of this letter

3. (with an adjective) a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing
• a messy writer  
Word Origin:
Old English wrītere, of Germanic origin.  
Example Bank:
• As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth.
• He is a prominent writer on civil liberties.
• He's just released a new album after two years of writer's block.
• Is political culture, as some writers have suggested, in a state of collapse?
• She gives talks about being a black woman writer.
• The present writer has no experience in microbiology.
• The present writer= the person writing has no experience in microbiology.
• The writer drew on his own experience to write this script.
• Unlike many writers of the period, she is not preoccupied with morality.
• We have decided not to employ a writer in residence after June.
• a chance for aspiring writers to get their work published
• a freelance feature writer for Time
• a popular writer who has written over forty books
• a very prolific crime writer
• a writer of children's books
• a writer to the letters column
• early writers in sociology
• her career as a writer
• one of the best writers in journalism today
• one of the greatest writers of all time
• He joined the newspaper in 1923 as an editorial writer.
• a travel/science/cookery writer

• the writer of this letter/article/computer program

teacher

teach·er [teacher teachers]   [ˈtiːtʃə(r)]    [ˈtiːtʃər]  noun

a person whose job is teaching, especially in a school

• a history/science, etc. teacher

• primary school teachers

• There is a growing need for qualified teachers of Business English.

Vocabulary Building:

Teach and teachers

Verbs

teach▪ John teaches French at the local school. ◊ ▪ She taught me how to change a tyre.

educate▪ Our priority is to educate people about the dangers of drugs.

instruct▪ Members of staff should be instructed in the use of fire equipment.

train▪ She’s a trained midwife. ◊ ▪ He’s training the British Olympic swimming team.

coach▪ He’s the best football player I’ve ever coached. ◊ ▪ She coaches some of the local children in maths. (BrE)

tutor▪ She tutors some of the local children in math. (NAmE)Nouns

teacher▪ school/college teachers

instructor▪ a swimming/science instructor

trainer▪ a horse trainer ◊ ▪ Do you have a personal trainer?

coach▪ a football coach

tutor▪ tutors working with migrant children

Example Bank:

• He is chairman of the Parent Teacher Association.

• I'm good at cooking. I had a good teacher.

• She held the post of deputy head teacher at a school in Leeds.

• She was a public school teacher.

• She's been accepted at Bath Teacher Training College.

• teacher preparation programs

• teacher ratings of reading ability

• teachers working with less able students

• teachers working with pupils with special educational needs

• His teacher sent him home for the rest of the day.

• I used to work as a history teacher.

• She was an inspirational teacher.

• Skilled classroom teachers should be better rewarded.

• Teachers of sex education will be aware of some of the myths circulating among students.

• The main teachers' union says more must be done to protect its members from assault.

• There must be some way to get rid of incompetent teachers.

• There's always been a shortage of good math teachers.

• We are looking for qualified and experienced English teachers.

• Who's your favourite teacher?

• a primary/secondary school teacher

• an elementary/a fourth-grade/a high school teacher

student

stu·dent [student students]   [ˈstjuːdnt]    [ˈstuːdnt]  noun
1. a person who is studying at a university or college
• a medical/science, etc. student
• a graduate/postgraduate/research student
• an overseas student
• a student teacher/nurse
• a student grant/loan (= money that is given/lent to students to pay for their studies)
• student fees (= to pay for the cost of teaching)
• She's a student at Sussex University.
• a dramatic increase in student numbers
• He's a third-year student at the College of Art.
• I did some acting in my student days.

see also  mature student

2. a person who is studying at a school, especially a secondary school
• a 15-year-old high school student
compare  pupil 

see also  A student

3. ~ of sth (formal) a person who is very interested in a particular subject
• a keen student of human nature  
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin student- ‘applying oneself to’, from the verb studere, related to studium ‘painstaking application’.  
Culture:
student life
The popular image of student life is of young people with few responsibilities enjoying themselves and doing very little work. This is often not true. Many older people now study at college or university, sometimes on a part-time basis while having a job and looking after a family. Many students are highly motivated and work very hard.
In Britain reduced government support for higher educationmeans that students can no longer rely on having their expenses paid for them. Formerly, students received a grant towards their living expenses. Now most can only get a loan, which has to be paid back. From 1999 they have had to pay a fixed amount towards tuition fees and from 2006 universities will be able to increase the amount up to a maximum of £3 000 per year. In the US students already have to pay for tuition and room and board. Many get a financial aid package which may include grants, scholarships and loans. The fear of having large debts places considerable pressure on students and many take part-time jobs during the term and work full-time in the vacations.
Many students in Britain go to a university away from their home town. They usually live in a hall of residence for their first year, and then move into a rented room in a private house or share a house with housemates. They may go back home during vacations, but after they graduate most leave home for good. In the US too, many students attend colleges some distance from where their parents live. They may live on campus in one of the halls, or off campus in apartments and houses which they share with room-mates. Some students, especially at larger universities, join a fraternity or sorority, a social group usually with its own house near the campus. Fraternities and sororities often have names which are combinations of two or three letters of the Greek alphabet. Some people do not have a good opinion of them because they think that students who are members spend too much time having parties.
In Britain the interests of students are represented by a student’s union which liaises with the university on academic matters, arranges social events and provides advice to students. Individual unions are affiliated with (= linked to) the NUS. The student union building is usually the centre of student life and has a bar and common room, and often a restaurant and shops. British universities have a wide range of societies, clubs and social activities including sports, drama and politics. One of the highlights (= main events) of the year is rag week, a week of parties and fund-raising activities in support of various charities.
Especially in their first year, US students spend a lot of time on social activities. One of the most important celebrations, especially at universities which place a lot of emphasis on sports, is homecoming. Many alumni (= former students) return to their alma mater (= college) for a weekend in the autumn to watch a football game. During homecoming weekend there are also parties and dances, and usually a parade.
When social activities take up too much time, students skip lectures (= miss them) or cut class (AmE) and take incompletes (AmE), which means they have to finish their work after the vacation. In the US this has the effect of lowering their course grades, but most US universities expect this behaviour from students and do little to stop it. Students are thought to be old enough to make their own decisions about how hard they work and to accept the consequences. A few students drop out (AmE flunk out) but the majority try hard to get good grades and a good degree. 
More About:
students
A student is a person who is studying at a school, college, university, etc.
An undergraduate is a student who is studying for their first degree at a university or college.
In BrE, a graduate is a person who has completed a first degree at a university or college. In NAmE graduate is usually used with another noun and can also apply to a person who has finished high school: ▪ a high school graduate ◊ ▪ a graduate student.
A postgraduate is a person who has finished a first degree and is doing advanced study or research. This is the usual term in BrE, but it is formal in NAmE and graduate student is usually used instead. 
Synonyms:
student
pupil • schoolboy/schoolchild/schoolgirl
These are all words for a child that attends school.
student • a person who is studying in a school, especially an older child: ▪ Students are required to be in school by 8.30. ◊ ▪ Any high school student could tell you the answer.
pupil • (BrE) a person who is being taught, especially a child in a school: ▪ The school has over 850 pupils.
Pupil is used only in British English and is starting to become old-fashioned. Student is often preferred, especially by teachers and other people involved in education, and especially when talking about older children.
schoolboy/ • schoolgirl/ • schoolchild • a boy, girl or child who attends school: ▪ Since she was a schoolgirl she had dreamed of going on the stage.
These words emphasize the age of the children or this period in their lives; they are less often used to talk about teaching and learning: an able schoolboy/schoolgirl/schoolchild
a(n) good/bright/able/brilliant/star/outstanding student/pupil
a naughty schoolboy/schoolgirl/schoolchild
a disruptive student/pupil
a(n) ex-/former student/pupil
a school student/pupil
to teach students/pupils/schoolboys/schoolgirls/schoolchildren 
Example Bank:
• He often takes part in student demonstrations.
• He studied metallurgy as a mature student, having spent ten years working in a foundry.
• I first came to America as an exchange student.
• I'm thoroughly enjoying student life.
• Ninety-four students were enrolled in the class.
• She first went to London as a student.
• She had to take out a student loan to help her through college.
• She studied metallurgy as a mature student.
• She travelled a lot in her student days.
• She's a former student of mine who graduated in the 80s.
• Student numbers at the college have increased by 25 per cent.
• The students are encouraged to think creatively.
• one of the best students the college has ever had
• taking part in a student demonstration
• teachers who engage students in meaningful discussions
• Any high school student could tell you the answer.
• Disruptive students may be excluded from school.
• He was a deeply observant man, a close student of the natural world.
• He was an outstanding student.
• I was always a straight A-student.
• Older students do not have to wear school uniform.
• She's a keen student of human nature.
• Student drivers often grip the wheel too tightly.
• Students are required to be in school by 8.30am.

• The more able students should manage these exercises easily.