autodidact
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- noun
- /ˌɔːtəˈdaɪdækt/
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autodidacta
- Leonardo da Vinci was an autodidact.
Examples
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Some of the great men in American history were autodidacts, not products of educational institutions.
Blog text (17) -
So I became an autodidact.
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I realized lately that I am an autodidact at heart.
Blog text (6) -
As a photographer, he is an autodidact.
Academic text (2003) -
If you're wondering why you are even listening to this, Jeremiah is also a self-described autodidact since the age of eight.
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But I'm a bit of an autodidact, which I gotta tell ya... is one of the reasons I was very excited when I learned my new landlord... was Dr. Eli Michaelson.
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Autodidacts make up almost half of the one million visitors per month to the MIT OCW site.
Academic text (2006) -
Many famous writers and inventors were autodidacts who taught themselves their craft.
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An autodidact learns new skills through reading books and practicing on their own.
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As an autodidact, she developed her expertise in programming without formal education.
Antonyms
How Self-Taught
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word autodidact comes from the parts auto- ('self') and -didact ('taught'), so it literally means 'self-taught'. Think of auto- like in automatic ('by itself') and -didact as related to 'teach', which helps you remember that an autodidact is a person who learned on their own instead of in a class.