SELF-EDUCATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-educated mean? 

• SELF-EDUCATED (adjective)
  The adjective SELF-EDUCATED has 1 sense:

1. educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction

  Familiarity information: SELF-EDUCATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-EDUCATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction

Similar:

educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))

 Context examples 

But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas’ books of voyages.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Well, in a way there has come to be a sort of connection,” I answered unsurprised by this time at such gaps in his vocabulary, which, like his knowledge, was the acquirement of a self-read, self-educated man, whom no one had directed in his studies, and who had thought much and talked little or not at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)