EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Education Department mean? 

• EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 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: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (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 ("Education Department" 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)