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Webster 1913 Edition

Autodidact

Au′to-di-dactˊ

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Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] self-taught.]

One who is self-taught; an automath.

Definition 2024

autodidact

autodidact

English

Noun

autodidact ‎(plural autodidacts)

A self-taught person; an automath.
Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.

See also

autonomous learning

Synonyms

automath

Related terms

Translations

a self-taught person

Albanian: autodidakt (sq)
Bulgarian: самоук (bg) ‎(samouk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自修者 (zìxiū zhě), 自學者, 自学者 (zìxué zhě)
Czech: samouk (cs) m
Danish: autodidakt (da) c
Finnish: itseoppinut
French: autodidacte (fr) m, f
German: Autodidakt (de) m
Hungarian: autodidakta (hu)

Ido: autodidakto (io)
Italian: autodidatto m, autodidatta (it) f
Norwegian: selvlært m, autodidakt (no) m
Polish: samouk (pl) m
Portuguese: autodidata (pt) m, f
Romanian: autodidact (ro) m
Russian: самоу́чка (ru) m, f ‎(samoúčka), автодида́кт (ru) m ‎(avtodidákt)
Serbo-Croatian: autodidakt (sh) m, samouk (sh) m
Spanish: autodidacto m, autodidacta (es) f
Swedish: autodidakt (sv) c

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