adult education

1. 1.

   a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study

   Broadercourse

Questions about adult education

What does adult education mean?

adult education means "a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study".

Is adult education a common word?

adult education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.