SELF-TAUGHT


Meaning of SELF-TAUGHT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

largely

He was largely self-taught through wide reading and attendance at public lectures.

She received some education at night school, but was largely self-taught .

Beck studied the piano at school but was largely self-taught .

Apart from a couple of saxophone lessons, he was largely self-taught on the instrument.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Flo is a self-taught cook.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught , and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity.

A single father, whose 9-year-old son lives with him part time, Wait said he is a self-taught cook.

He was largely self-taught through wide reading and attendance at public lectures.

It is, in his words, completely self-taught on a non-verbal level.

On the catering side, Wendy Vaughan is completely self-taught .

Paper also figures importantly in the work of George Fitzpatrick, a self-taught artist from Cleveland, Ohio.

Wait, 43, is a single father and self-taught cook.

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