teachverb [ I or T ]
uk/tiːtʃ/us/tiːtʃ/taught, taughtA1 to give someone knowledge or to train someone; to instruct:
She taught English to foreign students.
[ + to infinitive ] Who taught you to cook?
teach school US
to be a teacher in a school:
We moved to a small town where my mother taught school and my father worked in real estate.
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- This course qualifies you to teach in any secondary school.
- We need to ensure that handwriting is properly taught in our primary schools.
- My father taught me how to drive.
- Tom teaches sculpture at the local art school.
- He found it very hard teaching a class full of indifferent teenagers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Teaching in general
- brief
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- drum
- engage
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- popularize
- special educational needs
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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Idiom(s)
teach sb a lesson
that'll teach sb