someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.
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someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy, Schools and education systems.a school for special training
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.a room in a school where lessons take place
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.the job of a professional coach
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.the job of a professional coach
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.instructive (especially excessively)
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.instructive (especially excessively)
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.the condition of being made easy (or easier); "social facilitation is an adaptive condition"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Teaching and pedagogy.
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take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.the capacity to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"; "a man distinguished…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.the capacity to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"; "a man distinguished…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.The habit of noticing evidence that agrees with what you already think.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, learns, teacher, takes, knowledge.
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