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education

noun
/ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩//ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/US

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.

  1. derived from ēducātiō
  2. borrowed from éducation

Definitions

  1. The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

    • Good education is essential for a well-run society.

  2. Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.

    • Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education... Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
    • He has had a classical education.

  3. Upbringing, rearing.

    • 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.

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Derived

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 · +44 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at education. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at education. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at education

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA