taught

[tawt]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of teach.

taught

/ tɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of teach

Other Word Forms

• half-taught adjective
• well-taught adjective

Example Sentences

She taught them English at first, adding a bit of maths, at the children's request.

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The first things you’re taught will always stick with you, no matter how deep down they are in there.

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Now the primary school national curriculum is taught in Somali with the curriculum remaining in English for higher education - and Arabic used at madrassas, or Islamic schools.

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His parents didn’t speak English and taught him Italian as his first language.

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Assembly Bill 715 was among the most hotly contested education-related measures, spawning from dissatisfaction, largely among a coalition of Jewish groups, to the way ethnic studies has been taught in some California classrooms.

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