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1. (n.) education
the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge and of developing the powers of reasoning and judgment.
2. education
the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
3. education
a degree, level, or kind of schooling:
a college education.
4. education
the result produced by instruction, training, or study.
5. education
the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.
Etymology: (1525–35; (< MF) < L)
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| Definition of 'education' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
"he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
2. (noun) education
knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
"it was clear that he had a very broad education"
3. (noun) education
the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
"education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"
4. (noun) education
the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
5. (noun) education, training, breeding
the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
"a woman of breeding and refinement"
6. (noun) Department of Education, Education Department, Education
the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
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1. (noun) education
the process of teaching and learning
I work in education.; plans to increase spending on education
2. education
the process of informing sb about sth
sex education
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) education
the act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. education
as conceived of by Ruskin, and alone worthy of the name, "the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them"; and attained, "not by telling a man what he knew not, but by making him what he was not."
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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education
A form of self-delusion by those who muff every good wheeze.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. education
Acquisition of knowledge as a result of instruction in a formal course of study.
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