education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: educations
form: educashun
form: 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.
Senses: examples: text: For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties, he perceives in nature and life within and around him, and seizes, concentrates, abstracts, and digests for himself? Some do this spontaneously with unaccountable facility, such as Shakespeare, Burns, and Ebenezer Elliot; while others never can be tutored into any method of it by old rules, and often, when even stuffed in "the schools" to repletion, feel only besotted from a mind full of old abstruse indigestibles.
ref: 1881, John Younger, “Introductory Chapter”, in Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, Kelso, Scotland: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, page xii:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
text: Good education is essential for a well-run society.
glosses: The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
examples: text: Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
ref: 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
text: He has had a classical education.
text: The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.
glosses: Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23:
glosses: Upbringing, rearing.
Synonyms: word: education
Meronyms: word: primary education
word: secondary education
word: higher 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
freedom of 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
overeducation
over-education
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: word: educate
word: edutainment
word: schooling
word: training
word: teaching
word: instructing
word: tutoring
word: school
word: college
word: university
word: classroom
word: laboratory
word: educatee
word: learner
word: pupil
word: schoolboy
word: schoolgirl
word: gradeschooler
word: 1st grader
word: 13th grader
word: student
word: alumnus
word: undergraduate
word: postgraduate
word: educator
word: teacher
word: instructor
word: lecturer
word: professor
word: assistant professor
word: associate professor
word: tutor
word: principal
word: rector
word: dean
word: chancellor
word: school counselor
word: curriculum
word: textbook
word: exercise book
word: blackboard
word: whiteboard
word: chalk
word: schoolbag
word: teacher's desk
word: skill
word: knowledge
word: attitude
word: habit
word: subject
word: study
word: mathematics
word: science
word: art
word: class
word: lecture
word: test
word: examination
word: grade
word: degree
word: academic degree
word: bachelor's degree
word: master's degree
word: doctorate
word: engineer's degree
word: dissertation
word: master's thesis
word: doctoral thesis
word: report
word: report card
word: diploma
word: certificate
word: ministry of education
word: teach
word: train
word: instruct
word: learn
word: examine
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 537. Teaching
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar