DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Education mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Education; Education; Education Department

Hypernyms ("Department of Education" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Domain category:

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

 Context examples 

Bachelor's degree is an award (baccalaureate or equivalent degree, as determined by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education) conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies, that normally requires at least four years of full-time equivalent college-level work.

(Bachelor's Degree, NCI Thesaurus)