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self-taught

[self-tawt]

adjective

  1. having become as specified by teaching oneself, without the aid of formal education.

    She’s a self-taught photographer who sells her work online.

  2. learned by oneself.

    Particularly impressive is his self-taught mastery of the guitar.



self-taught

adjective

  1. having learnt oneself without any external or formal instruction

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of self-taught1

First recorded in 1715–25
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Paul defends his history as a self-taught boxer who came to change the rules of the game.

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Reproduced is a publicity image by Frederick Spalding, a self-taught British portrait photographer.

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"Being self-taught, I learned to distrust anything I hadn't figured out myself."

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Now 32, they’re the vanguard of a generation of self-taught filmmakers who are going to be very exciting.

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The aesthetics of this cinema reflect the often marginal backgrounds of its makers - many are self-taught and outside traditional power circles.

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