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teach | teached |

As a proper noun teach

is (slang) nickname for a teacher.

As a verb teached is

(nonstandard|colloquial|dialectal) (teach).

teach

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

  • To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
  • * :
    • So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
  • (label) To pass on knowledge to.
  • (label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
  • (label) To cause to learn or understand.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch , passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}
    Synonyms
    * (sense) educate, instruct
    Antonyms
    * (sense) learn
    Derived terms
    * * teacher * teaching

    Etymology 2

    (probably clipping)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (pejorative) teacher

    • Anagrams

    * * * English causative verbs English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    teached

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard, colloquial, dialectal) (teach)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Unknown Author, title=Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I always like to be there to teach or to be teached . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Ruth McEnery Stuart, title=Sonny, A Christmas Guest, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His Sam failed to pass at the preliminar' examination, an' wasn't allowed to try for a diplomy in public; an' Enoch an' his wife, why, they seem to hold it ag'in' me thet Sonny could step in at the last moment an' take what their boy could n't git th'oo the trials an' tribulations of a whole year o' bein' teached lessons at home an' wrestled in prayer over. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Works Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ole Missus and Marse learn't me to never tell a lie, and she teached me dat's de way to git along well. }}

    Usage notes

    The correct past of teach is taught.

    Anagrams

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