maestras

n. female teacher, schoolmistress, schoolmarm; screed

adj. masterly, expert; main

n. master, virtuoso; teacher, schoolmaster; dean; maestro

= schoolmaster, teacher, schoolteacher, elementary schoolteacher, dominie, class teacher.
Ex: These figures of 'authority', the local postman, the vicar, the village postmistress and schoolmaster were fast disappearing from the rural scene.
Ex: For example a set of slides for use by teachers may be indexed according to alphabetical subject headings.
Ex: Parents place great emphasis on the acquisition of reading skills, at times pressing so hard on their children that schoolteachers have to try to reduce that pressure = Los padres ponen un gran énfasis en la adquisición de la capacidad de leer, a veces presionando tanto a sus hijos que los profesores tienen que intentar reducir esta presión.
Ex: Elementary schoolteachers play an important part in the development of bibliographic skills.
Ex: 'Imagine,' these dominies tend to begin, 'that a man from outer space has come to earth and describe a screwdriver to him as clearly as you can'.
Ex: Her class teacher began it all by putting on an exhibition of about thirty of the best picture books in the school's infant-class library books for the five-to-seven-year- olds = Todo empezó con la exposición que montó su profesora de los treinta mejores cuentos de los libros de la biblioteca de la clase de primaria para los niños de cinco a siete años.
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* la práctica hace al maestro = practice makes perfect.
* maestro de escuela = school teacher.
* más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
* obra maestra de la pintura clásica = old master painting.