Definition of "pedagogue"

pedagogue

/ˈpɛdəɡɒɡ/

noun
plural pedagogues
1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  Quotations
  Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
  Quotations
  And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.
  1759 November 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Education”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number VI, London: […] W[illiam] Lane, […], published c. 1790, page 177
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
verb
third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued
1. To teach.