"self-educated" meaning in English

See self-educated in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more self-educated [comparative], most self-educated [superlative]
Etymology: self- + educated Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|educated}} self- + educated Head templates: {{en-adj}} self-educated (comparative more self-educated, superlative most self-educated)
  1. Of a person, having learned without the direction of a teacher.
    Sense id: en-self-educated-en-adj-FqjyGQiE

Verb

Etymology: self- + educated Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|educated}} self- + educated Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} self-educated
  1. simple past and past participle of self-educate Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: self-educate Related terms: self-education, autodidact, self-taught Translations (having learned without the direction of a teacher): αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos) (Ancient Greek), عِصَامِيّ (ʕiṣāmiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), самоук (samouk) (Bulgarian), selvlært (Danish), autodidakt (Danish), autodidact (Dutch), sjálvlærdur (Faroese), itseoppinut (Finnish), autodidacte (French), autodidacta [feminine, masculine] (Galician), autodidaktisch (German), autodidakta (Hungarian), autodidakt [masculine] (Norwegian), selvlært [masculine] (Norwegian), autodydaktyczny (Polish), autodidata (Portuguese), autodidact (Romanian), вы́учившийся самостоя́тельно (výučivšijsja samostojátelʹno) (Russian), вы́учившийся самоу́чкой (výučivšijsja samoúčkoj) (Russian), самообу́ченный (samoobúčennyj) (Russian), самообразо́ванный (samoobrazóvannyj) (Russian), fèin-ionnsaichte (Scottish Gaelic), самообразован [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), самоучен [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), samoobrazovan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), samoučen [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), autodidacta (Spanish), självlärd (Swedish), אויטאָדידאַקטיש (oytodidaktish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-self-educated-en-verb-5SvYzT5l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with self- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with self-: 19 81

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