education
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate.
Morphologically educate + -ion.
Base: educate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: educations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: educashun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: educamation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
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.
gloss: Upbringing, rearing.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: education
Related words: educate
edutainment
schooling
training
teaching
instructing
tutoring
school
college
university
classroom
laboratory
educatee
learner
pupil
schoolboy
schoolgirl
gradeschooler
1st grader
13th grader
student
alumnus
undergraduate
postgraduate
educator
teacher
instructor
lecturer
professor
assistant professor
associate professor
tutor
principal
rector
dean
chancellor
school counselor
curriculum
textbook
exercise book
blackboard
whiteboard
chalk
schoolbag
teacher's desk
skill
knowledge
attitude
habit
subject
study
mathematics
science
art
class
lecture
test
examination
grade
degree
academic degree
bachelor's degree
master's degree
doctorate
engineer's degree
dissertation
master's thesis
doctoral thesis
report
report card
diploma
certificate
ministry of education
teach
train
instruct
learn
examine
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 537. Teaching
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar
Derived words: adult education
adventure education
all-round education
antieducation
autoeducation
auto-education
basic education
board of 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
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