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Of a person, having learned without the direction of a teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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simple past and past participle of self-educate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbh-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English educated English self-educated From self- + educated.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
عِصَامِيّ
(ʕiṣāmiyy)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Bulgarian:
самоук
(samouk)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Danish:
selvlært
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Danish:
autodidakt
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Dutch:
autodidact
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Faroese:
sjálvlærdur
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Finnish:
itseoppinut
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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French:
autodidacte
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Galician:
autodidacta
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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German:
autodidaktisch
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Ancient Greek:
αὐτοδίδακτος
(autodídaktos)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Hungarian:
autodidakta
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Macedonian:
самоук
(samouk)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Macedonian:
самообразован
(samoobrazovan)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Norwegian:
autodidakt
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Norwegian:
selvlært
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Polish:
autodydaktyczny
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Portuguese:
autodidata
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Romanian:
autodidact
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Russian:
вы́учившийся самостоя́тельно
(výučivšijsja samostojátelʹno)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Russian:
вы́учившийся самоу́чкой
(výučivšijsja samoúčkoj)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Russian:
самообу́ченный
(samoobúčennyj)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Russian:
самообразо́ванный
(samoobrazóvannyj)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Scottish Gaelic:
fèin-ionnsaichte
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Serbo-Croatian:
самообразован
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Serbo-Croatian:
самоучен
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Serbo-Croatian:
samoobrazovan
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Serbo-Croatian:
samoučen
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Swedish:
självlärd
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
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Yiddish:
אויטאָדידאַקטיש
(oytodidaktish)
— having learned without the direction of a teacher
