headmaster

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A male school principal.

Usage notes
The term is gender-specific, and refers to a male in the position. A female in the same role would be called a headmistress. In the United States, the shortened version of 'master' was used in few universities to refer to the faculty leader of a residential space regardless of gender.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُدِير
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ; johtajaopettaja
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: atuarfiit pisortaat, atuarfiup pisortaa
 * Hebrew: מְנַהֵל
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: uachtarán, ardmháistir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Manx: ard-vainshtyr, ard-ynseyder, ard-er-ynsee
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: директор, равнатељ
 * Roman: director,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: дире́ктор
 * Vietnamese: (校長)
 * Welsh: