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Feb. 18, 2016
autodidact \aw-toh-DAHY-dakt, -dahy-DAKT\ noun
1. a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher
or formal education; a self-taught person.
Quotes You could have presented yourself as being self-taught, the
product of your own worthy efforts, there's nothing to be ashamed of,
society in the past took pride in its autodidactsâ¦
-- José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the
Siege of Lisbon, 1996 Origin Autodidact can be traced to the Greek
autodÃdaktos meaning "self-taught." The combining form auto- is used
in formation of compound words and means "self," "same," "spontaneous."
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