Introduction. Even though the concepts of pedagogical discourse attract the attention of many researchers, the academic literature contains next to no works on the conceptual signs of the educator concept, which explains the research novelty of the presented work. The aim of this article: to identify and describe the conceptual signs of the educator concept of pedagogical discourse in the dictionaries of synonyms. Materials and methods. This article is based on the methodology of the St. Petersburg–Kemerovo school, which includes a step-by-step study of the concept structure. The following methods of linguistic analysis are used: descriptive, for analyzing lin-guistic facts; conceptual, to identify the features that form the structure of the concept, and interpretive. The discursive material of the Russian National Corpus was used as illustrative data. Dictionaries of synonyms were taken to determine the conceptual signs of the educator concept. Research results, discussion. The study of the dictionaries of synonyms has found 36 conceptual signs of the educator concept. A part of these signs was found during the previous stages of research. The second part of the conceptual signs is new; it includes signs not found in previously analyzed dictionaries. Conclusion. As the analysis of the linguistic material shows, not all the conceptual signs of the educator concept indicated in the dictionaries of synonyms are rele-vant for the modern Russian language. One part of the conceptual signs of foreign-language (foreign-cultural) origin is not found in the contexts with words representing the concept under study. These conceptual signs are relevant, but the examples objectifying them are few. The other part of foreign-cultural conceptual signs is actu-alized in the contexts with the words-representatives of the studied concept.