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Definition: Autodidact |
AutodidactNoun1. A person who is self-taught. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "autodidact" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Autodidact \Au"to*di*dact`\, noun. [Greek expression self-taught.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Autodidact |
| English words defined with "autodidact": autodidactic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Autodidact" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (autodidact, self-taught man), Romanian (autodidact, self-educated, self-taught). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Autodidact."
| "Autodidact" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Autodidact" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
autodidact | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "autodidact"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | autodidakt (self-educated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | самообучение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | samouk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | autodidakt (self-taught man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | autodidact (self-taught man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭtodidakto (self-taught man), memlerninto (self-taught man), meminstruito (self-taught man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کسیکه پیش خودمیاموزد, شخص خوداموخته . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | autodidacte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Autodidakt (self-taught man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לומ" מעצמו, אוטו"י"קט (self-taught). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | autodidakta (self-educated, self-taught man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pendidikan sendiri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | autodidatta (self-educated, self-taught, self-taught person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | autodidactay autodidata (self-educated, self-schooled, self-taught). (various references) autodidact (self-educated, self-taught). (various references) самоучка (self-education, self-taught). (various references) autodidakt. (various references) autodidacta (self-taught person). (various references) autodidakt, självlärd person. (various references) otodidakt (self-educated, self-taught), kendi kendini yetiştirmiş kimse. (various references) самоук. (various references) người tự học. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "autodidact": autodidactic, autodidacts. (additional references) | |
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"Autodidact" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: autodidac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-i-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: autacoid. | |
-4 letters: addict, adduct, aoudad, caudad, dacoit, didact, outact, outadd, outdid. | |
-5 letters: attic, audad, audio, audit, coati, cotta, datto, dicot, dicta, ditto, ducat, octad, tacit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-i-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: autodidacts. | |
+2 letters: autodidactic. | |
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