teach
Plural: teaches
Noun
- an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
- teacher
Verb
Verb Forms: taught, teaching, teaches
- To impart knowledge or skill; to instruct.
- impart skills or knowledge to
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- To pass on knowledge to.
- To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
Examples
- Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?
- I wish my rack would TEACH me the perfect bingo word for this board.
- I'll teach you to make fun of me!
- She used to teach at university.
- ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).
Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
teach: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordteach: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
teach: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary