单词 | home-schooled |
释义 | home-schooledadj. Chiefly Education. In early use: self-taught. Later: (esp. of a child) educated at home, typically by one's parents. ΘΚΠ society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > self self-taught1587 self-instructed1695 autodidactic1828 autodidact1834 home-schooled1857 1857 Bristol Mercury 13 June 6/2 Without at all attempting to impugn the dictum of the home-schooled philosopher. 1906 H. P. Collin 20th Cent. Hist. & Biogr. Rec. Branch County, Michigan xxvi. 219 The home-schooled aspirant [lawyer] of sixty years ago would read a few volumes in the office of one whom he chose to call his ‘preceptor’. 1958 Atlanta Daily World 15 Nov. 5/2 Here were the home-schooled kids who had no axes to grind. 1985 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. (Educ. Suppl.) 46/2 He cited several cases of home-schooled students being admitted to good colleges at early ages. 1992 New Age Jrnl. Feb. 36/2 The average homeschooled child..has little difficulty making the academic crossover. 2000 Los Angeles Times 28 Dec. (Home ed.) a4 The new virtual campus is aimed at the nation's nearly 2 million home-schooled students. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857 |
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