Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A didactic person.

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  • noun a didactic person
  • noun a person gifted, trained, or intending to instruct

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from didactic.]

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Examples

  • Van's window cleaner is an auto-didact who reads Kerouac and disappears home to listen to Jimmie Rodgers.

    Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results 2010

  • But where did I get the idea that he was at least as much a book-lover as Truman the auto-didact and Kennedy the would-be history professor?

    A study of a blogger's study of Presidential reading habits 2008

  • But where did I get the idea that he was at least as much a book-lover as Truman the auto-didact and Kennedy the would-be history professor?

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • And, no, Im not an "auto-didact" but was taught by other people.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • For those whose holding hands with death a confidant impaired a balanced sense didact – there is no buoyancy in being left to face that solitary weariness.

    Reunion Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • This is a bit of a tweak on the nose for readers cheering on Blackburn, but Denton is not a cruel didact like Michael Haneke can be seeking to shame or convert the reader.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Tripp 2008

  • Millions of Americans were confused and bewildered by the change in Tom Cruise from the all-American action hero and boy next door to a bombastic finger-jabbing didact.

    Andrew Morton: Why I'm Right About Tom Cruise 2008

  • And what about David Smith, an insatiable auto-didact fascinated by his first-hand encounters with antiquity and Netherlandish art?

    An Artist's Drawings 2008

  • This is a bit of a tweak on the nose for readers cheering on Blackburn, but Denton is not a cruel didact like Michael Haneke can be seeking to shame or convert the reader.

    Coming straight out of Kansas Tripp 2008

  • For those whose holding hands with death a confidant impaired a balanced sense didact – there is no buoyancy in being left to face that solitary weariness.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

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