secretary of education

1. 1.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education

   “Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education”

   SynonymsEducation Secretary

   Broadersecretary
2. 2.

   the position of the head of the Education Department

   “the post of Education Secretary was created in 1979”

   SynonymsEducation Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet

Questions about secretary of education

What does secretary of education mean?

secretary of education means "the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for secretary of education?

Close synonyms include Education Secretary, Education Secretary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is secretary of education a common word?

secretary of 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.