Word Meanings - TEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to

Additional info about word: TEACH

1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals. If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them. South. 2. To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith. 3. To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish. I shall myself to herbs teach you. Chaucer. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. Jer. ix. 5. Note: This verb is often used with two objects, one of the person, the other of the thing; as, he taught me Latin grammar. In the passive construction, either of these objects may be retained in the objective case, while the other becomes the subject; as, I was taught Latin grammar by him; Latin grammar was taught me by him. Syn. -- To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel; admonish. See the Note under Learn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEACH)

• Acquaint
• Advertise
• inform
• impart
• make known
• divulge
• teach
• notify
• apprise
• advise
• tell
• Betoken
• Teach
• indicate
• proclaim
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• signify
• forebode
• evidence
• declare
• manifest
• involve
• imply
• Drill
• exercise
• instruct
• train
• ordinate
• discipline
• Educate
• Instruct
• nurture
• develop
• ground
• school
• initiate
• Enlighten
• Illumine
• edify
• illuminate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TEACH)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate

Related words: (words related to TEACH)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUMINATE
  in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. 1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. 2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually