Tom is an autodidact.
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Autodidact
//ˌɔːtoʊˈdaɪdækt//
Synonyms for "autodidact" (9 found)
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37 translations across 26 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- autodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- самоук noun (a self-taught person)
Catalan
1 entries- autodidacte noun (a self-taught person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 自修者 noun (a self-taught person)
- 自學者 /自学者 noun (a self-taught person)
Czech
1 entries- samouk noun (a self-taught person)
Danish
1 entries- autodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
Dutch
2 entries- autodidact noun (a self-taught person)
- zelfgeleerde noun (a self-taught person)
Finnish
1 entries- itseoppinut noun (a self-taught person)
French
1 entries- autodidacte noun (a self-taught person)
Galician
1 entries- autodidacta noun (a self-taught person)
German
2 entries- Autodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
- Autodidaktin noun (a self-taught person)
Hungarian
1 entries- autodidakta noun (a self-taught person)
Ido
1 entries- autodidakto noun (a self-taught person)
Indonesian
2 entries- autodidak noun (a self-taught person)
- swadidik noun (a self-taught person)
Italian
2 entries- autodidatta noun (a self-taught person)
- autodidatto noun (a self-taught person)
Macedonian
1 entries- самоук noun (a self-taught person)
Norwegian
2 entries- autodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
- selvlært noun (a self-taught person)
Polish
2 entries- autodydakta noun (a self-taught person)
- samouk noun (a self-taught person)
Portuguese
1 entries- autodidata noun (a self-taught person)
Romanian
1 entries- autodidact noun (a self-taught person)
Russian
2 entries- автодида́кт noun (a self-taught person)
- самоу́чка noun (a self-taught person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- autodìdakt noun (a self-taught person)
- samòuk noun (a self-taught person)
Spanish
2 entries- autodidacta noun (a self-taught person)
- autodidacto noun (a self-taught person)
Swedish
1 entries- autodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
Turkish
1 entries- otodidakt noun (a self-taught person)
Ukrainian
2 entries- автодида́кт noun (a self-taught person)
- самоу́к noun (a self-taught person)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
When he didn't receive a place at university, Tom became an autodidact.
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Tom's an autodidact: he's taught himself everything he knows.
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Tom is an autodidact: he taught himself everything he knows.
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