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Grammar : Verb
Spell : teech
Phonetic Transcription : titʃ



Definition of teach

Origin :
  • Old English tæcan (past tense and past participle tæhte) "to show, point out," also "to give instruction," from Proto-Germanic *taikijanan (cf. Old High German zihan, German zeihen "to accuse," Gothic ga-teihan "to announce"), from PIE *deik- "to show, point out" (see diction). Related to Old English tacen, tacn "sign, mark" (see token). Related: Taught; teaching.
  • Old English tæcan had more usually a sense of "show, declare, warn, persuade" (cf. German zeigen "to show," from the same root); while the Old English word for "to teach, instruct, guide" was more commonly læran, source of modern learn and lore.
  • verb educate; instill knowledge
Example sentences :
  • But I love children, you know, and I like to teach interesting studies.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • I'll teach a set of lawyers to come playing the Jew to my young men.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • No President, no government, can teach us to remember what is best in what we are.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Coax him to let you teach him—and bear with him if he should sing out of tune.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • It was on the major's lips to say 'He has sent you to teach it to me, Mark!'
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • She began at once to teach her music: the sooner a beginning was made the better!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • We pray thee to teach us so to live that we may all meet some day in our Father's house.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • But there was nobody to teach her the delicate graces and gentle virtues of a woman.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "If you will ride in a hammock, you ought to teach your men to shoot," was Kingozi's greeting.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

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