Teacher vs. Preceptor — What's the Difference?

A teacher (also called a schoolteacher or formally, an educator) is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue. Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g.

A preceptor (from Latin, "praecepto") is a teacher responsible for upholding a precept, meaning a certain law or tradition.

One who teaches, especially one hired to teach.

A teacher; an instructor.

A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.

An expert or specialist, such as a physician, who gives practical experience and training to a student, especially of medicine or nursing.

The index finger; the forefinger.

The head of a preceptory.

An indication; a lesson.

A teacher or tutor.

(Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.

(historic) The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar.

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc.

One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.

One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

A person whose occupation is teaching

The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

A personified abstraction that teaches;

Teacher at a university of college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)