institutor

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noun

One who institutes something.

“institutors of civil policy”

OriginLatin īnstitūtor →
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Meanings

nouninstitutor (plural institutors)

plural institutors · alternative obsolete institutour

  1. One who institutes something.

    institutors of civil policy

  2. obsoleteOne who educates; an instructor.

    The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at

    1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis […]
  3. obsoleteA presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Origin

  1. Latinīnstitūtor
  2. Englishinstitutor

From Latin īnstitūtor. Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute + -or.

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Translations

Spanish institutor, institutora
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APA

institutor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/institutor

MLA

“institutor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/institutor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “institutor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/institutor.

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