English Explanatory Dictionary

education

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
  2. Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
  3. Upbringing, rearing.

Pronunciation

/ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/ /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/ En-uk-education.ogg /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/ /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/ en-us-education.ogg

Word forms

education educations educashun educamation

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion.

Synonyms

education

Related words

educate edutainment schooling training teaching instructing tutoring school college university classroom laboratory educatee learner pupil schoolboy schoolgirl gradeschooler 1st grader 13th grader student alumnus undergraduate postgraduate educator teacher instructor lecturer professor assistant professor associate professor tutor principal rector dean chancellor school counselor curriculum textbook exercise book blackboard whiteboard chalk schoolbag teacher's desk skill knowledge attitude habit subject study mathematics science art class lecture test examination grade degree

Derived words

adult education adventure education all-round education antieducation autoeducation auto-education basic education board of education coeducation compulsory education continuing education cybereducation democratic education distance education distributive education driver's education early childhood education edjamacation edjewcation edu-babble edubusiness educationable educational education assistant educationese educationism educationist educationless educationlike educology eduspeak EduTwitter e-education eMac experiential education formal education freedom of education further education general education gifted education health education higher education home education immunoeducation ineducation language education liberal education maleducation mass education MEd miseducation neuroeducation noneducation outdoor education overeducation over-education physical education positive education preeducation primary education
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