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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A self-taught person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A self-taught person.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A self-taught person; an automath.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who is self-taught; an automath.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who has taught himself

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodidaktos), from αὐτός (autos, "self") + διδάσκω (didaskō, "I teach"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek autodidaktos, self-taught : auto-, auto- + didaktos, taught; see didactic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Yes, M-mv's resident and original reader, thinker, and autodidact is a bit cranky today, but she'll beat this funk before too long.”

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  • “Imagine, if you will, the Bubba Keg (a gift from Aunt M-mv) filled to capacity (52 ounces) with Trader Joe's French roast, brewed dark and strong, the way a certain autodidact favors it.”

    Archive 2004-12-01

  • “Anyway, I enjoy reading your site, and one of these days I'm even going to look up "autodidact" in the dictionary.”

    "Shockingly provincial"

  • “(An aside: Yes, W.R. We did notice how many other blogging folk had adopted "autodidact" as their new favorite word.”

    Confessions of a country autodidact

  • “Then came a detour to the brilliant but erratic work of an autodidact named Ted Nelson, whose ambitious Xanadu Project though never completed was a vision of disparate information linked by “hypertext” connections.”

    Simon & Schuster: In the Plex

  • “I support autodidact endeavors across the board, and view the university model to be the last scope of public life in severe need of a revolution." may help answer your question.”

    An Amazing First Century

  • “I support autodidact endeavors across the board, and view the university model to be the last scope of public life in severe need of a revolution.”

    An Amazing First Century

  • “Zinoman was an autodidact: She was a child actress in Chicago and later exercised her passion for theater in her years overseas with her husband Murray, a Foreign Service officer.”

    The Washington Post: Studio Theatre's new muse

  • “And gumption, just like Conjunction Junction (remember that cheery childhood chant for learning grammar?) is something this autodidact author will forever feed on -- this, after faith.”

    French Word-A-Day:

  • “An autodidact who graduated to hardcore aerospace engineering textbooks (more on my shelf than most Nasa engineers own).”

    COTS Thoughts From Jim Muncy - NASA Watch

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  • PossibleUnderscore Someone should start an autodidact club. I would be one to join! Jul 19, 2009

  • soden from the greek 'auto': "self"; and from 'didaktos' :"taught" Dec 15, 2008

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