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  2. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century. Many successful and influential architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc, Tadao Ando were self-taught. There are very few countries allowing autodidacticism in architecture today.

  3. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Billy Corgan Wrote and performed the song "Half-Life of an Autodidact" on his album Ogilala, apparently referencing himself in the song. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a mostly self-taught painter. [17] Clark Ashton Smith, self-taught poet and fantasy author. George Orwell, English novelist, essayist and journalist.

  4. Pantomath - Wikipedia

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    Pantomath is typically used to convey the sense that a great individual has achieved a pinnacle of learning, that an "automath" has taken autodidacticism to an endpoint. As an example, the obscure and rare term seems to have been applied to those with an astonishingly wide knowledge and interests by these two authors from different eras: Jonathan Miller has been called a pantomath, [2] as has ...

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/D - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples da-, dida-[1] (ΔΑ)learn: Greek: δάω: autodidact, Didache, didact, didactic, didacticism: dacry-[2]

  6. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...

  7. Talk:List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Definition of autodidact [ edit ] To uphold the " KISS Principle " let's just define an autodidact as someone who does not have a Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral degree, but has an equivalent Autodidactic Education .

  8. James Murray (lexicographer) - Wikipedia

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    On 26 April 1878, Murray was invited to Oxford to meet the Delegates of the Oxford University Press, with a view to his taking on the job of editor of a new dictionary of the English language, to replace Johnson's and to capture all the words then extant in the English speaking world in all their various shades of meaning.

  9. Autodidact - Wikipedia

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    From American English: This is a redirect from a term in American English spelling to an alternate spelling variation. The spelling is given by the target of the redirect. The spelling is given by the target of the redirect.