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education

[ ej-oo-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

    Synonyms: learning, schooling, instruction

  2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
  3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling:

    a university education.

  4. the result produced by instruction, training, or study:

    to show one's education.

    Synonyms: enlightenment, knowledge, learning

  5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.


education

/ ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən /

noun

  1. the act or process of acquiring knowledge, esp systematically during childhood and adolescence
  2. the knowledge or training acquired by this process

    his education has been invaluable to him

  3. the act or process of imparting knowledge, esp at a school, college, or university

    education is my profession

  4. the theory of teaching and learning

    a course in education

  5. a particular kind of instruction or training

    a university education

    consumer education

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • anti·edu·cation adjective
  • noned·u·cation noun
  • over·edu·cation noun
  • preed·u·cation noun
  • proed·u·cation adjective
  • super·edu·cation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of education1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Middle French, from Latin ēducātiōn-, stem of ēducātiō “a rearing, bringing up,” literally “a leading out,” equivalent to ēducāt(us) ( educate ) + -iō -ion
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Synonym Study

Education, training imply a discipline and development by means of study and learning. Education is the development of the abilities of the mind (learning to know): a liberal education. Training is practical education (learning to do) or practice, usually under supervision, in some art, trade, or profession: training in art, teacher training. Education, culture are often used interchangeably to mean the results of schooling. Education, however, suggests chiefly the information acquired. Culture is a mode of thought and feeling encouraged by education. It suggests an aspiration toward, and an appreciation of high intellectual and esthetic ideals: The level of culture in a country depends upon the education of its people.
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Example Sentences

Education controls the transmission of values and molds the spirit before dominating the soul.

What they believe impacts economic policy, foreign policy, education policy, environmental policy, you name it.

Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.

The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

This is why arguments for little to no federal oversight of education are so disturbing.

It seems to be a true instinct which comes before education and makes education possible.

I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.

He became a doctor in two hours, and it only cost him twenty dollars to complete his education.

And now let me come to the second problem we opened up in connection with college education—the problem of its extension.

If we are to have a real education along lines of expression we must begin with the "content," or cause, of expression.

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