To teach is to share knowledge of a subject with a student or students.
(verb)An example of to teach is to explain how to properly mail a letter.
See teach in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb taught, teaching
Origin: ME techen < OE tæcan < base of tacn, a sign, symbol (see token); basic sense “to show, demonstrate,” as in Ger zeigen
intransitive verb
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See teach in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb taught taught (tôt), teach·ing, teach·es verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English techen
Origin: , from Old English tǣcan; see deik- in Indo-European roots
.(tēch) also Thatch (thăch), Edward Known as Black·beard (blăkˈbîrdˌ) Died 1718.
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