taught
ˈtȯt 
; teaching
; teaching
1
a
: to cause to know something
taught them a trade
b
: to cause to know how
is teaching me to drive
c
: to accustom to some action or attitude
teach students to think for themselves
d
: to cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action
I'll teach you to come home late
2
: to guide the studies of
3
: to impart the knowledge of
teach algebra
4
a
: to instruct by precept, example, or experience
b
: to make known and accepted
experience teaches us our limitations
5
: to conduct instruction regularly in
teach school
: to provide instruction : act as a teacher
Synonyms
Examples of teach in a Sentence
He enjoys teaching his students about history.
She taught English for many years at the high school.
The church teaches compassion and forgiveness.
Someone needs to teach her right and wrong.
The experience taught us that money doesn't mean everything.
Her injury will teach her not to be so careless with a knife.
Recent Examples on the Web
All About Its Rare Visibility from Earth Moriarty’s love for teaching and imparting his own knowledge motivated him to set a date for 46 years in the future.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
Bragg was on a break from public service, teaching at New York Law School.
—Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
After teaching for 19 years, Wolfe left her dream job last year.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
Eunice Fried, 94, wrote ‘What Every Woman Should Know About Wine’ to teach women to take charge of the bottle
NEW YORK — No fewer than six bottles of champagne nestle in Eunice Fried’s refrigerator, and several dozen other bottles of wine fill a 6-foot-tall rack by the front door.
—Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
While children everywhere are taught to never play too close to traffic, a fuzzy little black bear cub received no such advice from its mama and found itself in quite the predicament on April 7.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
That will give them the space to continue to teach the most accurate, up-to-date version of U.S. History and prevent forces that fundamentally don’t understand the job of historians from shaping what American children learn about the past.
—TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
Game and Fish also said people should not feed wild animals, pets should be on a leash when outdoors and children should be taught to do the same.
—The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
That process comes after the algorithms build their baseline responses, and involves a human stepping in to teach a model which responses are good, and which responses are bad.
—Maxwell Zeff and Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
Bragg was on a break from public service, teaching at New York Law School.
—Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
After teaching for 19 years, Wolfe left her dream job last year.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
Eunice Fried, 94, wrote ‘What Every Woman Should Know About Wine’ to teach women to take charge of the bottle
NEW YORK — No fewer than six bottles of champagne nestle in Eunice Fried’s refrigerator, and several dozen other bottles of wine fill a 6-foot-tall rack by the front door.
—Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
While children everywhere are taught to never play too close to traffic, a fuzzy little black bear cub received no such advice from its mama and found itself in quite the predicament on April 7.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
That will give them the space to continue to teach the most accurate, up-to-date version of U.S. History and prevent forces that fundamentally don’t understand the job of historians from shaping what American children learn about the past.
—TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
Game and Fish also said people should not feed wild animals, pets should be on a leash when outdoors and children should be taught to do the same.
—The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
That process comes after the algorithms build their baseline responses, and involves a human stepping in to teach a model which responses are good, and which responses are bad.
—Maxwell Zeff and Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
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teach
verb
taught
ˈtȯt
; teaching
; teaching
1
: to assist in learning how to do something : show how
teach a child to read
2
: to guide the studies of : instruct
teach a class
3
: to give lessons in : instruct pupils in
teach music
4
: to be a teacher
5
: to cause to learn : cause to know the effects of an action
the experience taught him to be more careful
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