Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Educated by one's own efforts rather than by formal instruction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Educated by one's own efforts alone, without regular training under a preceptor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a person, having learned without the direction of a
teacher .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, I was an honor student and had no problem moving forward (self-educated) and becoming middle class.
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Brilliant and self-educated, Wexler was a cub reporter for Billboard when that magazine decided to change the name of its Race Records chart and Wexler proposed "rhythm and blues."
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Of course, a student has to be taught from a somewhat early age how to be discerning about the sources of education, but this is true for one who goes to a college as well as for one who is self-educated.
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However, I was an honor student and had no problem moving forward (self-educated) and becoming middle class.
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Muir was a botanist, geologist, mathematician, visionary, a voracious, self-educated reader, a remarkable inventor who worked in factories to create more efficient manufacturing methods.
The Ultimate Nature Walk Vibhuti Patel 2011
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André Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was a self-educated French physicist and mathematician as well as a key figure in the development of the fields of electricity and magnetism.
Ampère, André Marie 2009
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Of course, what I am talking about from my ordinary self-educated adventure guy perspective are the human factors.
Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad: Sending Humans to Mars: Part I Reid Stowe 2011
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Of course, what I am talking about from my ordinary self-educated adventure guy perspective are the human factors.
Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad: Sending Humans to Mars: Part I Reid Stowe 2011
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He was a plumber and an immigrant, self-educated, and passionately interested in science and the natural world.
and in the morning when i wake up jaylake 2009
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He was self-educated, had taught himself German and French, and at that time was earning a meagre living by translating scientific and philosophical works for a struggling socialist publishing house in Chicago.
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