teacherly

English

Etymology

From teacher +‎ -ly.

Adjective

teacherly (comparative more teacherly, superlative most teacherly)

1. Of or relating to teachers.
2. Suggestive of a teacher.
   • 1988 November 18, Albert Williams, “Don't Call Me Cleo”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either.

   • 1997 April 4, Jack Helbig, “The Fever”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways.

   • 2004 May 14, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader‎^[3]:

     Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum").

Translations

of or relating to teachers

• Finnish: opettaja- (fi)

suggestive of a teacher

• Finnish: opettajamainen