education
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (generally jocular) educashun, educamation
EtymologyEdit
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
PronunciationEdit
- (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
NounEdit
education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)
- (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:education
- 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.
- (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.
- Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
- 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.
- 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
Derived termsEdit
- adventure education
- all-round education
- auto-education
- basic education
- compulsory education
- continuing education
- distance education
- distributive education
- e-education
- early childhood education
- edjamacation
- education assistant
- educational
- educationese
- educationist
- formal education
- further education
- general education
- gifted education
- higher education
- home education
- liberal education
- mass education
- MEd
- ministry of education
- outdoor education
- over-education
- physical education
- primary education
- professional education
- progressive education
- re-education camp
- reeducation, re-education
- religious education
- secondary education
- self-education
- sex education
- special education
- special education advocate
- Steiner education
- tertiary education
- tertiary-level education
- vocational education
- Waldorf education
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment
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facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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