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Self-taught individual
Answer for the clue "Self-taught individual ", 10 letters:
autodidact
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Word definitions for autodidact in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A self-taught person; an automath.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746, from Greek autodidaktos "self-taught" (see autodidactic ).\n
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Autodidact is a rock EP released by John Taylor in 1997.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autodidact \Au"to*di*dact`\, n. [Gr. ? self-taught.] One who is self-taught; an automath.
Usage examples of autodidact.
Dak had become a successful minor criminal, an autodidact and a self-made bore.
A fierce autodidact, she had remade herself into something she had not been born to be.
Jefferson was a polymath, an autodidact, a nerd literally without peer.
Then as word gets out autodidact somaturges and gutter hexers from the falling-down parts of town arrive.
Cutter felt the creep of awe on his skin, watching the man for whom he felt and had always felt so animal an emotion, surely the most potent golemist in New Crobuzon, its autodidact magus.
He also realized (for the first time) that autodidacts are always in pain.
He was most comfortable with men who had the abstract madness of autodidacts, like his mentor, Lord Suffolk, like the English patient.