What does "education" mean?
The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Education
/ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
- Grammar: education is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: instruction, teaching, training, academic achievement.
- Useful contrasts: anarchy, disorganization, ignorance.
- Usage evidence: Education in this world disappoints me.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment. uncountable
"For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties, he perceives in nature and life within and around him, and seizes, concentrates, abstracts, and digests for himself? Some do this spontaneously with unaccountable facility, such as Shakespeare, Burns, and Ebenezer Elliot; while others never can be tutored into any method of it by old rules, and often, when even stuffed in "the schools" to repletion, feel only besotted from a mind full of old abstruse indigestibles."
- 2 the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) wordnet
- 3 Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction. countable
"Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education... Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative."
- 4 the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill wordnet
- 5 Upbringing, rearing. archaic, countable, uncountable
"I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education."
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- 6 the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) wordnet
- 7 the gradual process of acquiring knowledge wordnet
- 8 knowledge acquired by learning and instruction wordnet
- 9 the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979 wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Education in this world disappoints me."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "education"?
Common synonyms include: instruction, teaching, training, academic achievement, accomplishment, accomplishments.
How do you use "education" in a sentence?
Education in this world disappoints me.
How do you pronounce "education"?
Pronounced /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“I educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion.