self-educated

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ educated.

Adjective

self-educated (comparative more self-educated, superlative most self-educated)

1. Of a person, having learned without the direction of a teacher.

Translations

having learned without the direction of a teacher

Arabic: عِصَامِيّ (ar) m (ʕiṣāmiyy) Bulgarian: самоук (bg) (samouk) Danish: selvlært, autodidakt (da) Dutch: autodidact (nl) Faroese: sjálvlærdur Finnish: itseoppinut French: autodidacte (fr) Galician: autodidacta m or f German: autodidaktisch (de) Greek: Ancient: αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos) Hungarian: autodidakta (hu) Macedonian: самоук (samouk), самообразован (samoobrazovan) Norwegian: autodidakt (no) m, selvlært m Polish: autodydaktyczny (pl) Portuguese: autodidata (pt) Romanian: autodidact (ro) Russian: вы́учившийся самостоя́тельно (výučivšijsja samostojátelʹno), вы́учившийся самоу́чкой (výučivšijsja samoúčkoj), самообу́ченный (samoobúčennyj), самообразо́ванный (samoobrazóvannyj) Scottish Gaelic: fèin-ionnsaichte Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: самообразован, самоучен Roman: samoobrazovan, samoučen Spanish: autodidacta (es), autodidacto Swedish: självlärd (sv) Yiddish: אויטאָדידאַקטיש (oytodidaktish)

See also

• autodidact
• self-taught

Verb

self-educated

1. simple past and past participle of self-educate

Related terms

• self-education