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self-educated

[self-ej-oo-key-tid, self-]

adjective

  1. educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.



self-educated

adjective

  1. educated through one's own efforts without formal instruction

  2. educated at one's own expense, without financial aid

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • self-educating adjective
  • self-education noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of self-educated1

First recorded in 1810–20
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John Spargo, a self-educated British stonemason who emigrated to New York in 1901, became an unlikely political theorist of the movement.

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Her lack of art-school education may have set her apart but, Homer French points out, every artist is self-educated.

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Donkey isn’t allowed to go to school, so she is more or less self-educated, and her only friend is her dog.

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He was self-educated and a natural leader, who eventually was betrayed and murdered by his enemies in 1840.

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Dr Croft said he did and added he was an independent "educated and self-educated observer".

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