teach

About 26.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To pass on knowledge to.

   Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?

2. verb To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

   She used to teach at university.

3. verb To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
4. verb To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

   I'll teach you to make fun of me!

5. verb To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

   ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

6. noun teacher

Similar words

instruct learn blackbeard thatch edward teach edward thatch inculcate impart introduce initiate

Often followed by

the them us you him me a in and

Word family

taught teaches teaching