Usually means: Self-taught through own initiative.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. autodidact: Merriam-Webster
  2. autodidact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autodidact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. autodidact: Collins English Dictionary
  5. autodidact: Vocabulary.com
  6. autodidact: Wordnik
  7. autodidact: Wiktionary
  8. autodidact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. autodidact: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Autodidact, autodidact: Dictionary.com
  11. Autodidact (album), Autodidact, The Autodidact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Autodidact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. autodidact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. autodidact: Rhymezone
  15. autodidact: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Autodidact: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. autodidact: FreeDictionary.org
  18. autodidact: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. autodidact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. autodidact: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. autodidact: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. autodidact: A Word A Day
  2. autodidact: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See autodidactic as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autodidact)

▸ noun:  A self-taught person.

Similar:
automath, unteacher, didactician, didact, didacticist, do-it-yourselfer, autoist, DIYer, autocyclist, learner, more...

Opposite:
heterodidact, formally educated, schooled

Types:
self-taught, independent study, unschooled, more...

Adjectives:
class, young, brilliant, true, classic, formidable, complete, accomplished, impressive, typical, baked

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Similar:
automath, unteacher, didactician, didact, didacticist, do-it-yourselfer, autoist, DIYer, autocyclist, learner, more...

Opposite:
heterodidact, formally educated, schooled

Types:
self-taught, independent study, unschooled, more...

Adjectives:
class, young, brilliant, true, classic, formidable, complete, accomplished, impressive, typical, baked

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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