EDUCATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Education mean? 

• EDUCATION (noun)
  The noun EDUCATION has 6 senses:

1. the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

2. knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

3. the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

4. the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

5. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

6. 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: EDUCATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDUCATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching

Context example:

good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded

Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Meronyms (parts of "education"):

classroom project (a school task requiring considerable effort)

classwork (the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom)

homework; prep; preparation (preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home))

lesson (a task assigned for individual study)

Domain member category:

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

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

tuition; tuition fee (a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education))

point system (a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules)

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

academic program ((education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):

coeducation (education of men and women in the same institutions)

continuing education (a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time)

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

elementary education (education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school)

extension; extension service; university extension (an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students)

extracurricular activity (educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum)

higher education (education provided by a college or university)

secondary education (education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school)

team teaching (a method of coordinated classroom teaching involving a team of teachers working together with a single group of students)

work-study program (an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study)

Derivation:

educate (create by training and teaching)

educate (give an education to)

educational (providing knowledge)

educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

it was clear that he had a very broad education

Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):

physical education (training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene)

experience (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities)

encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship (profound scholarly knowledge)

enlightenment (education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge)

foundation; grounding (education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge)

Derivation:

educate (create by training and teaching)

educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The gradual process of acquiring knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

a girl's education was less important than a boy's

Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):

acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)

Domain category:

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):

acculturation; assimilation (the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure)

vocational education; vocational training (training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade)

special education (education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom)

school; schooling (the process of being formally educated at a school)

self-cultivation; self-education (the process of educating yourself)

mastering (becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of)

Derivation:

educate (create by training and teaching)

educational (relating to the process of education)

educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):

profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))

Domain category:

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Derivation:

educate (give an education to)

educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)

educate (create by training and teaching)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

breeding; education; training

Context example:

a woman of breeding and refinement

Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):

upbringing (properties acquired during a person's formative years)

Derivation:

educate (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment)

Sense 6

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 ("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)

Derivation:

educate (give an education to)

 Context examples 

Teles explained that he chose math because he discovered that the subject is one of the major education problems in developing countries.

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

They also compared data on participants’ age, sex, ethnicity, and education.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

The study compared the health and drinking habits of over 600,000 people in 19 countries worldwide and controlled for age, smoking, history of diabetes, level of education and occupation.

(Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, University of Cambridge)

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We want to increase communication, information, young peoples' education...

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

That is, even after you take people’s socioeconomic status into account (in this study’s case, education and social class), does a person’s residential environment still affect their mental health?

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

"Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent. He will make a fine man, if not spoiled by petting," replied her mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You have everything a man could have,—youth, health, strength, education, energy.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This relationship remained after accounting for factors including age, sex, race, parental education, household income and birth-weight.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

A registered nurse with advanced education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice.

(Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)