Definition of Teaching

1. Noun. The profession of a teacher. "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"


2. Noun. A doctrine that is taught. "He believed all the Christian precepts"
Exact synonyms: Commandment, Precept
Generic synonyms: Doctrine, Ism, Philosophical System, Philosophy, School Of Thought
Specialized synonyms: Golden Rule, Mitsvah, Mitzvah

3. Noun. The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"

Definition of Teaching

1. n. The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Definition of Teaching

1. Noun. Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority. ¹

2. Noun. The profession of teaching. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of teach) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teaching

1. a doctrine [n -S] - See also: doctrine

Medical Definition of Teaching

1. The educational process of instructing. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teaching

teacherless
teacherlike
teacherly
teachers
teachers' nodes
teachers' pets
teachers college
teachership
teacherships
teaches
teaches away
teachest
teacheth
teachie
teachin'
teaching (current term)
teaching aid
teaching away
teaching certificate
teaching fellow
teaching hospital
teaching materials
teaching method
teaching reading
teachings
teachless
teacup
teacupful
teacupfuls
teacuplike

Literary usage of Teaching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"The quality of the teaching is the pivotal fact in the vocational, ... RESULTS OF POOR teaching. Poor teaching can not be compensated for by anything else. ..."

2. The Teacher, Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government by Jacob Abbott (1836)
"And teaching, if it is pleasant, animating, and exciting to one, may be so to all. I am met, however, at the outset, in my effort to show why it is that ..."

3. The Teacher; Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government by Jacob Abbott (1839)
"And teaching, if it is pleasant, animating, and exciting to one, may be so to all. THERE is a most singular contrariety of opinion prevailing in the ..."

4. The Vitalized School by Francis Bail Pearson (1917)
"There is a wide difference between school-teaching and teaching school. ... School-teaching may be living; but teaching school is life. ..."

5. In the School-room: Or, Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John Seely Hart (1872)
"TN the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class -•- may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. ..."

6. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction by American Institute of Instruction, Meeting (1848)
"LECTURE I. ON FAILURES IN teaching, BY JOHN KINGSBURY, PROVIDENCE, EI IT is a common opinion that there is a greater proportion of failures in teaching than ..."

7. The Art of Study by Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1900)
"CHAPTER I. LEARNING AND teaching. ONE of the most valuable arts that a boy or a girl, a young man or a young woman, can learn is the art of value of study. ..."

8. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"The quality of the teaching is the pivotal fact in the vocational, ... RESULTS OF POOR teaching. Poor teaching can not be compensated for by anything else. ..."

9. The Teacher, Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government by Jacob Abbott (1836)
"And teaching, if it is pleasant, animating, and exciting to one, may be so to all. I am met, however, at the outset, in my effort to show why it is that ..."

10. The Teacher; Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government by Jacob Abbott (1839)
"And teaching, if it is pleasant, animating, and exciting to one, may be so to all. THERE is a most singular contrariety of opinion prevailing in the ..."

11. The Vitalized School by Francis Bail Pearson (1917)
"There is a wide difference between school-teaching and teaching school. ... School-teaching may be living; but teaching school is life. ..."

12. In the School-room: Or, Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John Seely Hart (1872)
"TN the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class -•- may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. ..."

13. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction by American Institute of Instruction, Meeting (1848)
"LECTURE I. ON FAILURES IN teaching, BY JOHN KINGSBURY, PROVIDENCE, EI IT is a common opinion that there is a greater proportion of failures in teaching than ..."

14. The Art of Study by Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1900)
"CHAPTER I. LEARNING AND teaching. ONE of the most valuable arts that a boy or a girl, a young man or a young woman, can learn is the art of value of study. ..."

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