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say it: ej-uh-KAY-shuhn
education is a noun meaning "the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill". It carries 6 recorded senses.
the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
“he received no formal education”
“our instruction was carefully programmed”
“good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded”
knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
“it was clear that he had a very broad education”
the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
“education is a preparation for life”
“a girl's education was less important than a boy's”
education
the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
education
the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
“a woman of breeding and refinement”
the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
education
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for education come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.