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SELF-EDUCATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-educated mean?
• SELF-EDUCATED (adjective)
The adjective SELF-EDUCATED has 1 sense:
1. educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
Familiarity information: SELF-EDUCATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
Similar:
educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))
Context examples
But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas’ books of voyages.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Well, in a way there has come to be a sort of connection,” I answered unsurprised by this time at such gaps in his vocabulary, which, like his knowledge, was the acquirement of a self-read, self-educated man, whom no one had directed in his studies, and who had thought much and talked little or not at all.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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