# education
## English
### Alternative forms

* (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: e‧du‧ca‧tion
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

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.
** 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.
* (now rare) Upbringing, rearing.
** 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23:I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education.

#### Derived terms

* adult education
* adventure education
* all-round education
* antieducation
* autoeducation
* auto-education
* basic education
* coeducation
* compulsory education
* continuing education
* cybereducation
* democratic education
* distance education
* distributive education
* driver's education
* early childhood education
* edjamacation
* edjewcation
* edu-babble
* edubusiness
* educationable
* educational
* education assistant
* educationese
* educationism
* educationist
* educationless
* educationlike
* educology
* eduspeak
* EduTwitter
* e-education
* eMac
* experiential education
* formal education
* further education
* general education
* gifted education
* health education
* higher education
* home education
* immunoeducation
* ineducation
* language education
* liberal education
* maleducation
* mass education
* MEd
* miseducation
* neuroeducation
* noneducation
* outdoor education
* over-education
* overeducation
* physical education
* positive education
* preeducation
* primary education
* professional education
* progressive education
* psychoeducation
* re-education camp
* reeducation, re-education
* relaxed education
* religious education
* secondary education
* self-education
* sex education
* sexual education
* special education
* special education advocate
* Steiner education
* technology education
* teleducation
* tertiary education
* tertiary-level education
* undereducation
* uneducation
* vocational education
* Waldorf education
* yutori education

#### Related terms

* educate

#### Translations

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### See also

* edutainment
* schooling
* training

### References

* “education”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* education in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “education”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* auctioned, cautioned