- absorptive capacity
- achievement gap
- acquirable
- acquire
- acquisition
- audit
- bone
- know better (than to do something) idiom
- know something from something phrasal verb
- know something like the back of your hand idiom
- know your way around something idiom
- language acquisition
- orientation
- recognition
- recognize
- study holiday
- study under someone phrasal verb
- subskill
- subspeciality
- subspecialize
Meaning of autodidact in English
Examples of autodidact
autodidact
Some of its adherents were middle-class, and others were working-class autodidacts.
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Shagan shows that new ideas can produce a very strange amalgam in an autodidact.
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An autodidact, with no undergraduate degree, he brought a powerful intellect and matching moral conviction to the rapidly changing worlds of health and social welfare.
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Improvement in this model remained the province of the heroic autodidact, because only the solitary man or woman could choose such arduous labor.
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Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in which plebeian autodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated.
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Every lively person is to some degree an autodidact, a continuous learner, absorbing attitudes and information in the process of adapting to a physical and cultural environment.
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The book, written in an eccentric prose style replete with fragmentary sentences, is part classical liberal manifesto, part elucubration of an enthusiastic statistical autodidact.
An autodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic and technical drawing.
Some autodidacts spend a great deal of time reviewing the resources of libraries and educational websites.
Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.
All architects must be autodidacts to keep up to date with new standards, new regulations, or new methods.
She learned these languages mostly by self-effort, as an autodidact.
Markus is an autodidact with a realistic style.
He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems.
For his literary formation responds with full sense the word autodidact.
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