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taught

[ tawt ]

/ tɔt /

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of teach.

OTHER WORDS FROM taught

half-taught, adjective well-taught, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH taught

taught taut taunt

Words nearby taught

tau neutrino, tau particle, taubaté, tauber, tauchnitz, taught, tauhinu, tauhou, tauiwi, taunt, taunton

Example sentences from the Web for well-taught

Music followed; Flora played nicely, Meta like a well-taught girl; Ethel went on musing over the engravings.

The Daisy Chain |Charlotte Yonge
The well-taught, self-respecting daughters of farmers, the class most valuable in domestic service, gradually retired from it.

Household Papers and Stories |Harriet Beecher Stowe
The well-taught child will recognize the justice and necessity for the existing processes of life.

The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young |Margaret Warner Morley
A small table under the looking-glass bore the library of a well-taught young woman of those times.

The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 |Various

So early do well-taught Yankee children develop one qualification for the diaconate.

A Rambler's lease |Bradford Torrey

British Dictionary definitions for well-taught (1 of 2)

well-taught

adjective (well taught when postpositive)

having been shown, tutored, or instructed in a successful manner

British Dictionary definitions for well-taught (2 of 2)

taught

/ (tɔːt) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of teach