an elder / a scholar / a teacher or a professor / sensei (Japanese martial arts teacher) / sir, a polite form of address to teachers, doctors, etc.

a title used after the name of teachers, doctors, lawyers, or certain other professionals

(dialect, Hakata) teacher, professor

Abbreviation of 師.

oath, promise, swearing, vowing, abjuration, pledge, word of honor

take an oath, make a sworn statement, swear an oath

autocracy

teachers / doctors

making the first move

to make the first move