teach
/ti:tʃ/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To impart knowledge or skill to (someone): To cause someone to learn or understand something by giving instruction or explanation.
- To give instruction in (a subject or skill): To act as a teacher for a particular area of study or activity.
- To advocate or instruct in a principle, belief, or way of behaving: To cause someone to accept a doctrine or adopt a habit through instruction or example.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- She teaches mathematics at the local high school.
- Experience has taught me to be more cautious.
- He is teaching his daughter how to read.
Advanced Usage
- "to teach someone a lesson": To cause someone to suffer a bad experience so that they will avoid repeating the mistake.
- Losing all his money in that deal taught him a lesson about risky investments.
- "to teach school": (Chiefly US) To work as a teacher in a school.
- After graduating, she returned to her hometown to teach school.
Variants and Related Words
- Teacher (n): A person who teaches, especially in a school.
- She is a respected teacher.
- Teaching (n): The occupation, profession, or work of a teacher; also, the ideas or principles taught by a person or group.
- He went into teaching after college. / The teachings of Buddha.
- Teachable (adj): Capable of being taught; also, willing to receive instruction.
- The concept was broken down into teachable units.
Synonyms
- Instruct: To provide someone with knowledge or information in a structured way.
- Educate: To provide intellectual, moral, and social instruction over time.
- Train: To teach a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Teach to: (Often used with a skill or subject) To instruct someone in a specific area.
- My grandfather taught me to fish.
- Teach about: To give instruction concerning a particular topic.
- This program teaches children about internet safety.
Related Idioms
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks: It is very difficult to make someone change their habits or learn new methods, especially when they are older or set in their ways.
- He refuses to use the new software. I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- Those who can, do; those who can't, teach: (Often considered derogatory) A saying implying that people who are not successful practitioners in a field become teachers of it instead.
- He dismissed her criticism with the old saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
Noun
- an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Verb
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- The child is taught to obey her parents
- impart skills or knowledge to
- I taught them French
- He instructed me in building a boat