name
Meaning 1
Nickname for a teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Examples
- I'm not in trouble again, am I, Teach?
Meaning relationships
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name
Nickname for a teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname. Most commonly associated with the pirate Blackbeard, who gave his real name as Edward Teach, Thatch, or Tack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
teacher
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, term-of-address, usually
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verb
To pass on knowledge to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ditransitive
Synonyms: educate, instruct
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, stative
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: learn
verb
To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ditransitive
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verb
To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ditransitive
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verb
To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover
verb
accustom gradually to some action or attitude
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: habituate, accustom
verb
impart skills or knowledge to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: learn, instruct
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inform
Narrower terms: train, develop, prepare, educate, indoctrinate, drill, catechize, catechise, reinforce, reward, spoonfeed, induct, mentor, tutor, unteach, ground, lecture, talk, coach, enlighten, edify, condition
History
Possibly a variant of Thatch or Tack.
Clipping of teacher.
From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token.
Across languages
306 source translations are retained for this English entry.