Teach

Quick meaning: Teach is a verb meaning (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

Meaning

(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
2. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
3. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
4. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher
5. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

Example Sentences

She used to teach at university.

I'll teach you to make fun of me!

Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?

‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

Word Forms

• teaches
• teaching
• teachest
• teacheth

Synonyms for teach

Depending on context, synonyms include educate, instruct, thatch, learn.

Antonyms for teach

Common opposites include learn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include instruct, learn, thatch, inculcate, impart, introduce.

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