Usually means: Teacher, often overly instructive, pedantic.
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  1. didact: Merriam-Webster
  2. didact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. didact: Collins English Dictionary
  4. didact: Wiktionary
  5. didact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. didact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. didact: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. didact: Dictionary.com
  9. Didact, The Didact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. didact: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. didact: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (didact)

▸ noun:  A didactic person.
▸ noun:  A person gifted, trained, or intending to instruct.
▸ noun:  (loosely) Any teacher.

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Didachist, pedagogue, Diodoran, Aristotelian, peripatetic, docetist, decalogist, Socratic, Didache, Atticist, more...

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Didachist, pedagogue, Diodoran, Aristotelian, peripatetic, docetist, decalogist, Socratic, Didache, Atticist, more...



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