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Grammar : Verb
Spell : teech
Phonetic Transcription : titʃ



Definition of teaches

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 :
  • "I mean the philosopher, who teaches in the groves of Academus," continued he.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • It teaches as a fact that which is not true; and it claims as right that which God has not given.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • Example is one of the most potent of instructors, though it teaches without a tongue.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • Is this the way that he teaches the officers of his Majesty's guard to use their weapons?'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • This is the importunity He teaches, and we must learn: to claim and take the blessing.
  • Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray
  • The prudence which teaches one man to be a Whig, will make of another a Utopian.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • He teaches us to go to and fro willingly, gladly, from the highest to the lowest.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
  • One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I mean to say—Does he who teaches anything persuade men of that which he teaches or not?
  • Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
  • Then, is it not our mother, rather than our father, who teaches us to speak when we are children?
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine

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