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Grammar : Adj
Spell : tawt
Phonetic Transcription : tɔt



Definition of taught

Origin :
  • past tense of teach, from Old English tahte (see teach).
  • adj instructed
Example sentences :
  • The girls I know are taught painstakingly how to get a husband, but nothing of how to be a wife.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Aldonza had certainly not taught him the phrases he was so fond of repeating.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • The endless struggle for life had taught the survivors many things.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • Mr Clayton had taught me wisdom, which his own bad conduct could not sully or affect.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • All these things Uncle Jasper had taught Andrew long and long before.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Why should any one be taught to behave like a gentleman, so long as he is no gentleman?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Had she been obedient only to that she had been taught, or obedient to the very God?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Mart was sharp-tongued; all her life had taught her to be so.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Cornelius had been taught—and had learned nothing but manners.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • "And you are he who taught me to speak the truth," she cried.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

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