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Definition of autodidact
: a self-taught person was an autodidact who read voraciously
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For all his life Mr. Cohran was a ravenous autodidact, studying world history, astrology, health science and musicology and passing that knowledge on to students.
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Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.
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Upon being elected mayor in 2006, Bogdán, who completed only three years of formal schooling but is a restless autodidact, set about helping villagers understand the power of that dictum.
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A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society.
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The painter was identified as Van Dyck, but Snare, with an art lover’s instincts and an autodidact’s ravenous literacy, was certain it was painted by Diego Velázquez.
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Origin and Etymology of autodidact
Greek autodidaktos self-taught, from aut- + didaktos taught, from didaskein to teach
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