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EDUCATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):
profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))
Domain category:
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):
instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)
Derivation:
educate (create by training and teaching)
educate (give an education to)
educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
Example:
good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded
Synonyms:
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Meronyms (parts of "education"):
lesson (a task assigned for individual study)
homework; prep; preparation (preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home))
classwork (the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom)
classroom project (a school task requiring considerable effort)
Domain member category:
tuition; tuition fee (a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education))
Department of Education; Education; Education Department (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)
academic program ((education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education))
education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)
point system (a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules)
education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):
coeducation (education of men and women in the same institutions)
continuing education (a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time)
class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)
elementary education (education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school)
extension; extension service; university extension (an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students)
extracurricular activity (educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum)
higher education (education provided by a college or university)
secondary education (education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school)
team teaching (a method of coordinated classroom teaching involving a team of teachers working together with a single group of students)
work-study program (an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study)
Derivation:
educate (create by training and teaching)
educate (give an education to)
educational (providing knowledge)
educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
Example:
a woman of breeding and refinement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):
upbringing (properties acquired during a person's formative years)
Derivation:
educate (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The gradual process of acquiring knowledge
Example:
a girl's education was less important than a boy's
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):
acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)
Domain category:
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):
vocational education; vocational training (training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade)
special education (education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom)
school; schooling (the process of being formally educated at a school)
self-cultivation; self-education (the process of educating yourself)
mastering (becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of)
acculturation; assimilation (the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure)
Derivation:
educate (create by training and teaching)
educational (relating to the process of education)
educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
Example:
it was clear that he had a very broad education
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("education" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "education"):
physical education (training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene)
experience (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities)
encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship (profound scholarly knowledge)
enlightenment (education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge)
foundation; grounding (education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge)
Derivation:
educate (create by training and teaching)
educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
Synonyms:
Department of Education; Education; Education Department
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Education" 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)
Derivation:
educate (give an education to)
Context examples:
It fulfills its mission to 'advance science and serve society' through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more.
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, NCI Thesaurus)
A scientific and educational association of surgeons with the main goal to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.
(American College of Surgeons, NCI Thesaurus)
A voluntary membership organization of physicians that sets standards for the profession of medicine, and is highly focused on medical education.
(American Medical Association, NCI Thesaurus)
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They note that the biggest impact was on males, especially those with less education.
(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It is well known that social and other environmental factors influence education, but these findings suggest that large genetics analyses may be able to help discover biological pathways as well.
(Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment, NIH)
Higher levels of parental education were associated with lower odds of inclusion in the second group.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
I was a harum-scarum, reckless lad, and he had had an education, and was already marked for the sword-belt.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I haven't read him since adolescence, and all I read then was his 'Education.'
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
