education

See also: e-ducation, éducation, and êducâtion

English

Alternative forms

• (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tion

Noun

education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)

1. (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

   Good education is essential for a well-run society.

2. (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
     Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

   He has had a classical education.

   The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.

Derived terms

Terms derived from education

• all-round education
• distance education
• educational
• educationese
• educationist
• general education
• MEd

• liberal education
• mass education
• primary education
• reeducation, re-education
• secondary education

• tertiary education
• higher education
• further education
• edjamacation
• professional education
• vocational education

Related terms

• educate

Translations

process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment

• Afrikaans: onderwys (af)
• Albanian: arsim (sq), edukim (sq) f
• Amharic: ትምህርት (təmhərt)
• Arabic: تَعْلِيم‎ (ar) m (taʿlīm), تَرْبِيَة‎ (ar) f (tarbiya)
• Aragonese: educación f
• Armenian: կրթություն (hy) (krtʿutʿyun), ուսում (hy) (usum)
• Aromanian: educatsie f
• Assamese: শিক্ষা (xikha)
• Asturian: educación f
• Azerbaijani: təhsil (az), tərbiyə (az), maarif, təlim (az)
• Bashkir: мәғариф (mäğarif)
• Basque: hezkuntza
• Belarusian: адука́цыя (be) f (adukácyja), асве́та f (asvjéta), асьве́та f (asʹvjéta), выхава́нне n (vyxavánnje), выхава́ньне n (vyxavánʹnje)
• Bengali: শিক্ষা (bn) (śikkha), তালিম (talim)
• Bokyi: kor n' wed
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: образова́ние (bg) n (obrazovánie), възпита́ние (bg) n (vǎzpitánie)
• Burmese: ပညာ (my) (pa.nya), ပညာရေး (my) (pa.nyare:)
• Buryat: болбосорол (bolbosorol)
• Catalan: educació (ca) f
• Chechen: дешар (dešar)
• Cherokee: ᏗᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ (dideloquasdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 教育 (gaau³ juk⁶)

  Mandarin: 教育 (zh) (jiàoyù), 教學 (zh), 教学 (zh) (jiàoxué), 教養 (zh), 教养 (zh) (jiàoyǎng)

  Min Nan: 教育 (zh-min-nan) (kàu-io̍k)

  Wu: 教育 (jiau hhioq)

• Chuvash: вӗрентӳ (vĕrent̬ü)
• Cornish: adhyskans
• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Crimean Tatar: maarif, tasil
• Czech: vzdělávání (cs) n
• Danish: opdragelse (da) c, uddannelse c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onderwijs (nl) n
• Esperanto: eduko (eo), edukado
• Estonian: haridus (et)
• Faroese: útbúgving f
• Finnish: kasvatus (fi), koulutus (fi), opetus (fi)
• French: éducation (fr) f, enseignement (fr)
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Fula:

• Latin ekkitinol
• Adlam: 𞤫𞤳𞥆𞤭𞤼𞤭𞤲𞤮𞤤‎

• Galician: educación (gl) f
• Georgian: განათლება (ganatleba)
• German: Ausbildung (de) f, Erziehung (de) f, Schulung (de) f, Unterricht (de) m
• Greek: εκπαίδευση (el) f (ekpaídefsi)

  Ancient: παιδεία f (paideía)

• Gujarati: શિક્ષણ (śikṣaṇ), કેળવણી (keḷvaṇī)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: hoʻonaʻauao
• Hebrew: חִנּוּךְ \ חינוך‎ (he) m (khinúkh)
• Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā), तालीम (hi) f (tālīm)
• Hungarian: nevelés (hu), oktatás (hu)
• Icelandic: menntun f
• Ido: eduko (io), edukado (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: pendidikan (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: oideachas (ga) m, léann m
• Italian: istruzione (it) f, educazione (it) f
• Japanese: 教育 (ja) (きょういく, kyōiku)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kalmyk: сурһуль (surhulʹ)
• Kannada: ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ (kn) (śikṣaṇa)
• Kazakh: оқу (kk) (oqw), ағарту (ağartw), білім беру (bilim berw)
• Khmer: ការសិក្សា (kaa səksaa)
• Kikuyu: gĩthomo 7
• Korean: 교육(敎育) (ko) (gyoyuk)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەروەردە‎ (ku) f (perwerde), زانیاری‎ (zanyarî)

  Northern Kurdish: perwerde (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: билим берүү (bilim berüü), агартуу (ky) (ağartuu)
• Lao: ການສຶກສາ (lo) (kān sưk sā)

• Latgalian: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: cultus (la) m, disciplina f
• Latvian: audzināšana f, izglītība f
• Lithuanian: auklėjimas m, ugdymas m, lavinimas m
• Luxembourgish: Erzéiung f, Educatioun f, Ausbildung f
• Macedonian: образование n (obrazovanie), воспитание n (vospitanie)
• Malay: pendidikan (ms), pelajaran
• Malayalam: വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം (ml) (vidyābhyāsaṃ)
• Maltese: edukazzjoni f
• Manx: edjaghys m
• Maori: akoranga matauranga, mātauranga
• Marathi: शिक्षण (śikṣaṇ)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: боловсрол (mn) (bolovsrol), сурган хүмүүжил (surgan khümüüjil)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠯᠪᠠᠰᠤᠷᠠᠯ (bolbasural), ᠰᠤᠷᠭᠠᠨ
  ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠵᠢᠯ (surɣan kümüǰil)

• Navajo: íhooʼaah
• Nepali: शिक्षा (ne) (śikṣā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utdannelse (no), utdanning (no) m or f, oppdragelse m

  Nynorsk: utdanning f, utdaning

• Occitan: educacion (oc) f
• Oriya: ଶିକ୍ଷା (or) (śikṣa)
• Pashto: زده کړه‎ (ps) f (zdákṛa), تعليمات‎ m pl (ta'limãt), تربيه‎ (ps) f (tarbiyá), معارف‎ m (ma'āréf)
• Persian: آموزش‎ (fa) (âmuzeš), معرفت‎ (fa) (ma'refat), تعلیم‎ (fa) (ta'lim)
• Plautdietsch: Belia f
• Polish: edukacja (pl) f, oświata (pl) f, kształcenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: educação (pt) f, ensino (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖਿਆ (pa) (sikkhiā)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: educație (ro) f, educare (ro) f
• Romansch: furmaziun f
• Russian: образова́ние (ru) n (obrazovánije), обуче́ние (ru) n (obučénije), воспита́ние (ru) n (vospitánije), просвеще́ние (ru) n (prosveščénije)
• Sanskrit: शिक्ष (sa) f (śikṣa), शिक्षा (sa) f (śikṣā)
• Scots: eddication
• Scottish Gaelic: foghlaim m, teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: образова́ње n, васпи́та̄ње n, одгајивање n, про̏света f, про̏свјета f

  Roman: obrazovánje (sh) n, vaspítānje (sh) n, odgajivanje n, prȍsveta, prȍsvjeta (sh) f

• Sicilian: aducazzioni f
• Sindhi: تعليم‎ (sd)
• Sinhalese: අධ්‍යාපනය (si) (adhyāpanaya)
• Slovak: vzdelávanie n
• Slovene: izobraževanje n
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: educación (es) f
• Swahili: elimu (sw)
• Swedish: utbildning (sv) c, undervisning (sv) c
• Tagalog: katuruan (tl), edukasyon (tl)
• Tajik: маориф (tg) (maorif), омузиш (omuziš), таълим (tg) (taʾlim)
• Tamil: கல்வி (ta) (kalvi)
• Tatar: мәгърифәт (tt) (mäğrifät)
• Telugu: విద్య (te) (vidya)
• Thai: การศึกษา (th) (gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa)
• Tibetan: སློབ་གསོ (slob gso)
• Tigrinya: ትምህርቲ (təmhərti)
• Turkish: eğitim (tr)
• Turkmen: bilim (tk), magaryf, terbiýeleýiş
• Ukrainian: осві́та (uk) f (osvíta), вихова́ння (uk) n (vyxovánnja)
• Urdu: تعلیم‎ (ur) (ta'līm), معرفت‎ (ur) f (ma'rifat)
• Uyghur: مائارىپ‎ (ma'arip), ئوقۇش‎ (oqush)
• Uzbek: maorif (uz), tahsil (uz), maʻrifat
• Vietnamese: giáo dục (vi) (教育), dạy dỗ (vi), giáo dưỡng (vi) (教養)
• Vilamovian: aojsbildung
• Volapük: dugäl (vo), dugälav (vo) (pedagogy), benodugäl (vo), benodugälam (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: addysg (cy) f
• West Frisian: ûnderwiis
• Yakut: үөрэҕирии (üöreğirii)
• Yiddish: בילדונג‎ f (bildung), חינוך‎ m or m (khinekh) (Jewish education)
• Zhuang: gyauyuz

facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally

• Afrikaans: opvoeding
• Arabic: تَعْلِيم‎ (ar) m (taʿlīm), ثَقَافَة‎ (ar) f (ṯaqāfa)
• Armenian: կրթություն (hy) (krtʿutʿyun)
• Bengali: শিক্ষা (bn) (śikkha), তালিম (talim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教育 (zh) (jiàoyù)

• Czech: vzdělání (cs) n
• Danish: uddannelse
• Dutch: opvoeding (nl)
• Estonian: haridus (et)
• Finnish: kasvatus (fi)
• French: éducation (fr) f
• German: Bildung (de) f, Schulung (de) f, Aufklärung (de) f, Höflichkeit (de) f
• Greek: μόρφωση (el) f (mórfosi)

  Ancient: παιδεία f (paideía)

• Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā)
• Hungarian: műveltség (hu)
• Ido: edukiteso (io), instrukteso (io)
• Irish: léann m
• Italian: formazione (it) f
• Japanese: 教養 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō)
• Korean: 교양(敎養) (ko) (gyoyang)
• Latvian: izglītība f
• Lithuanian: išsilavinimas m, lavinimas m

• Macedonian: образование n (obrazovanie)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utdannelse (no), utdanning (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: utdanning f, utdaning

• Persian: آموزش‎ (fa) (âmuzeš)
• Plautdietsch: Jelieeheit f
• Polish: wykształcenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: educação (pt) f
• Romanian: educație (ro) f, învățământ (ro) n
• Russian: образова́ние (ru) n (obrazovánije)
• Sanskrit: शिक्षण (sa) n (śikṣaṇa)
• Scots: eddication
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀дгој m, образова́ње, и̏зобразба f, на̏образба f

  Roman: òdgoj (sh) m, obrazovanje (sh), ȉzobrazba (sh) f, nȁobrazba (sh) f

• Slovak: vzdelanie
• Slovene: izobrazba f
• Spanish: educación (es) f
• Swahili: elimu (sw)
• Swedish: utbildning (sv) c, hövlighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: katuruan (tl), edukasyon (tl)
• Telugu: విద్య (te) (vidya)
• Turkish: eğitim (tr), öğrenim (tr)
• Yiddish: בילדונג‎ f (bildung)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} arsim (sq), ^{(please verify)} edukim (sq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} taşandin (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} hêvotin (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} terbiyet (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} fêrkirin (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} hînkirin (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} elimandin (ku) f

• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം (ml) (vidyābhyāsaṃ) (1), ^{(please verify)} വിദ്യ (ml) (vidya) (2)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} elimu (sw)

See also

• training
• schooling

References

• education at OneLook Dictionary Search
• education in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “education” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• auctioned, cautioned