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 toinstruct
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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And, no, Im not an "auto-didact" but was taught by other people.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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