education

education

See also: éducation, êducâtion, and e-ducation

English

Alternative forms

• (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēdūcō (“I educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”). See educate.Morphologically educate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tion

Noun

education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)

1. (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:education

   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

   Good education is essential for a well-run society.

2. (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

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

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

   He has had a classical education.

   The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.

Derived terms

• adventure education
• all-round education
• auto-education
• basic education
• compulsory education
• continuing education
• distance education
• distributive education
• early childhood education
• edjamacation
• educational
• education assistant
• educationese
• educationist
• e-education
• formal education
• further education
• general education
• gifted education
• higher education
• home education
• liberal education
• mass education
• MEd
• ministry of education
• outdoor education
• over-education
• physical education
• primary education
• professional education
• progressive education
• re-education camp
• reeducation, re-education
• religious education
• secondary education
• self-education
• sex education
• special education
• special education advocate
• Steiner education
• tertiary education
• tertiary-level education
• vocational education
• Waldorf education

 

Related terms

• educate

Translations

process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment

Afrikaans: onderwys (af) Albanian: arsim (sq), edukim (sq) f Amharic: ትምህርት (təmhərt) Arabic: تَعْلِيم‎ (ar) m (taʿlīm), تَرْبِيَة‎ (ar) f (tarbiya) Aragonese: educación f Armenian: կրթություն (hy) (krtʿutʿyun), ուսում (hy) (usum) Aromanian: educatsie f Assamese: শিক্ষা (xikha) Asturian: educación f Azerbaijani: təhsil (az), tərbiyə (az), maarif, təlim (az) Bashkir: мәғариф (mäğarif) Basque: hezkuntza Belarusian: адука́цыя (be) f (adukácyja), асве́та f (asvjéta), асьве́та f (asʹvjéta), выхава́нне n (vyxavánnje), выхава́ньне n (vyxavánʹnje) Bengali: শিক্ষা (bn) (śikha), তালিম (bn) (talim) Bokyi: kor n' wed Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: образова́ние (bg) n (obrazovánie), възпита́ние (bg) n (vǎzpitánie) Burmese: ပညာ (my) (pa.nya), ပညာရေး (my) (pa.nyare:) Buryat: болбосорол (bolbosorol) Catalan: educació (ca) f Chechen: дешар (dešar) Cherokee: ᏗᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ (dideloquasdi) Chinese: Cantonese: 教育 (gaau3 juk6) Mandarin: 教育 (zh) (jiàoyù), 教學／教学 (zh) (jiàoxué), 教養／教养 (zh) (jiàoyǎng) Min Nan: 教育 (zh-min-nan) (kàu-io̍k) Wu: 教育 (jiau hhioq) Chuvash: вӗрентӳ (vĕrent̬ü) Cornish: adhyskans Corsican: please add this translation if you can Crimean Tatar: maarif, tasil Czech: vzdělávání (cs) n Danish: opdragelse (da) c, uddannelse c Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: onderwijs (nl) n Esperanto: eduko (eo), edukado Estonian: haridus (et) Faroese: útbúgving f Finnish: kasvatus (fi), koulutus (fi), opetus (fi) French: éducation (fr) f, enseignement (fr) Friulian: please add this translation if you can Fula: Latin ekkitinol Adlam: 𞤫𞤳𞥆𞤭𞤼𞤭𞤲𞤮𞤤‎ Galician: educación (gl) f Georgian: განათლება (ganatleba) German: Ausbildung (de) f, Erziehung (de) f, Schulung (de) f, Unterricht (de) m Greek: εκπαίδευση (el) f (ekpaídefsi) Ancient: παιδεία f (paideía) Gujarati: શિક્ષણ (śikṣaṇ), કેળવણી (keḷvaṇī) Hausa: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: hoʻonaʻauao Hebrew: חִנּוּךְ \\ חינוך‎ (he) m (khinúkh) Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā), तालीम (hi) f (tālīm) Hungarian: nevelés (hu), oktatás (hu) Icelandic: menntun f Ido: eduko (io), edukado (io) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: pendidikan (id) Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Irish: oideachas (ga) m, léann m Italian: istruzione (it) f, educazione (it) f Japanese: 教育 (ja) (きょういく, kyōiku) Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kalmyk: сурһуль (surğulĭ) Kannada: ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ (kn) (śikṣaṇa) Kazakh: оқу (kk) (oqu), ағарту (ağartu), білім беру (bılım beru) Khmer: ការសិក្សា (kaa səksaa) Kikuyu: gĩthomo class 7 Korean: 교육(敎育) (ko) (gyoyuk) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پەروەردە‎ (ku) f (perwerde), زانیاری‎ (zanyarî) Northern Kurdish: perwerde (ku) f Kyrgyz: билим берүү (bilim berüü), агартуу (ky) (agartuu), окутум (okutum) Lao: ການສຶກສາ (lo) (kān sưk sā) Latgalian: please add this translation if you can Latin: cultus (la) m, disciplina f Latvian: audzināšana f, izglītība f Lithuanian: auklėjimas m, ugdymas m, lavinimas m Luxembourgish: Erzéiung f, Educatioun f, Ausbildung f Macedonian: образование n (obrazovanie), воспитание n (vospitanie) Malay: pendidikan (ms), pelajaran Malayalam: വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം (ml) (vidyābhyāsaṃ) Maltese: edukazzjoni f Manx: edjaghys m Maori: akoranga matauranga, mātauranga (mi) Marathi: शिक्षण (śikṣaṇ) Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: боловсрол (mn) (bolovsrol), сурган хүмүүжил (surgan xümüüžil) Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠯᠪᠠᠰᠤᠷᠠᠯ (bolbasural), ᠰᠤᠷᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠵᠢᠯ (surɣan kümüǰil) Navajo: íhooʼaah Nepali: शिक्षा (ne) (śikṣā) Norwegian: Bokmål: utdannelse (no), utdanning (no) m or f, oppdragelse m Nynorsk: utdanning f, utdaning Occitan: educacion (oc) f Oriya: ଶିକ୍ଷା (or) (śikṣa) Pashto: زده کړه‎ (ps) f (zdákṛa), تعليمات‎ m pl (ta'limãt), تربيه‎ (ps) f (tarbiyá), معارف‎ m (ma'āréf) Persian: آموزش‎ (fa) (âmuzeš), معرفت‎ (fa) (ma'refat), تعلیم‎ (fa) (ta'lim) Plautdietsch: Belia f Polish: edukacja (pl) f, oświata (pl) f, kształcenie (pl) n Portuguese: educação (pt) f, ensino (pt) m Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖਿਆ (pa) (sikkhiā) Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can Romanian: educație (ro) f, educare (ro) f Romansch: furmaziun f Russian: образова́ние (ru) n (obrazovánije), обуче́ние (ru) n (obučénije), воспита́ние (ru) n (vospitánije), просвеще́ние (ru) n (prosveščénije) Sanskrit: शिक्ष (sa) f (śikṣa), शिक्षा (sa) f (śikṣā) Scots: eddication Scottish Gaelic: foghlaim m, teagasg m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: образова́ње n, васпи́та̄ње n, одгајивање n, про̏света f, про̏свјета f Roman: obrazovánje (sh) n, vaspítānje (sh) n, odgajivanje n, prȍsveta, prȍsvjeta (sh) f Sicilian: aducazzioni f Sindhi: تعليم‎ (sd) Sinhalese: අධ්‍යාපනය (si) (adhyāpanaya) Slovak: vzdelávanie n Slovene: izobraževanje n Somali: please add this translation if you can Spanish: educación (es) f Swahili: elimu (sw) Swedish: utbildning (sv) c, undervisning (sv) c Tagalog: katuruan (tl), edukasyon (tl) Tajik: маориф (tg) (maorif), омузиш (omuziš), таълим (tg) (taʾlim) Tamil: கல்வி (ta) (kalvi) Tatar: мәгърифәт (tt) (mäğrifät) Telugu: విద్య (te) (vidya) Thai: การศึกษา (th) (gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa) Tibetan: སློབ་གསོ (slob gso) Tigrinya: ትምህርቲ (təmhərti) Turkish: eğitim (tr) Turkmen: bilim (tk), magaryf, terbiýeleýiş Ukrainian: осві́та (uk) f (osvíta), вихова́ння (uk) n (vyxovánnja) Urdu: تعلیم‎ (ur) (ta'līm), معرفت‎ (ur) f (ma'rifat) Uyghur: مائارىپ‎ (ma'arip), ئوقۇش‎ (oqush) Uzbek: maorif (uz), tahsil (uz), maʻrifat Vietnamese: giáo dục (vi) (教育), dạy dỗ (vi), giáo dưỡng (vi) (教養) Vilamovian: aojsbildung Volapük: dugäl (vo), dugälav (vo) (pedagogy), benodugäl (vo), benodugälam (vo) Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: addysg (cy) f West Frisian: ûnderwiis Yakut: үөрэҕирии (üöreğirii) Yiddish: בילדונג‎ f (bildung), חינוך‎ m or m (khinekh) (Jewish education) Zhuang: gyauyuz

facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally

Afrikaans: opvoeding Arabic: تَعْلِيم‎ (ar) m (taʿlīm), ثَقَافَة‎ (ar) f (ṯaqāfa) Armenian: կրթություն (hy) (krtʿutʿyun) Bengali: শিক্ষা (bn) (śikha), তালিম (bn) (talim) Chinese: Mandarin: 教育 (zh) (jiàoyù) Czech: vzdělání (cs) n Danish: uddannelse Dutch: opvoeding (nl) Estonian: haridus (et) Finnish: kasvatus (fi) French: éducation (fr) f German: Bildung (de) f, Schulung (de) f, Aufklärung (de) f, Höflichkeit (de) f Greek: μόρφωση (el) f (mórfosi) Ancient: παιδεία f (paideía) Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā) Hungarian: műveltség (hu) Ido: edukiteso (io), instrukteso (io) Irish: léann m Italian: formazione (it) f Japanese: 教養 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō) Korean: 교양(敎養) (ko) (gyoyang) Latvian: izglītība f Lithuanian: išsilavinimas m, lavinimas m Macedonian: образование n (obrazovanie) Norwegian: Bokmål: utdannelse (no), utdanning (no) m or f Nynorsk: utdanning f, utdaning Persian: آموزش‎ (fa) (âmuzeš) Plautdietsch: Jelieeheit f Polish: wykształcenie (pl) n Portuguese: educação (pt) f Romanian: educație (ro) f, învățământ (ro) n Russian: образова́ние (ru) n (obrazovánije) Sanskrit: शिक्षण (sa) n (śikṣaṇa) Scots: eddication Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀дгој m, образова́ње, и̏зобразба f, на̏образба f Roman: òdgoj (sh) m, obrazovanje (sh), ȉzobrazba (sh) f, nȁobrazba (sh) f Slovak: vzdelanie Slovene: izobrazba f Spanish: educación (es) f Swahili: elimu (sw) Swedish: utbildning (sv) c, hövlighet (sv) c Tagalog: katuruan (tl), edukasyon (tl) Telugu: విద్య (te) (vidya) Turkish: eğitim (tr), öğrenim (tr) Yiddish: בילדונג‎ f (bildung)

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Albanian: (please verify) arsim (sq), (please verify) edukim (sq) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: (please verify) taşandin (ku) f, (please verify) hêvotin (ku) f, (please verify) terbiyet (ku) f, (please verify) fêrkirin (ku) f, (please verify) hînkirin (ku) f, (please verify) elimandin (ku) f Malayalam: (please verify) വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം (ml) (vidyābhyāsaṃ) (1), (please verify) വിദ്യ (ml) (vidya) (2) Swahili: (please verify) elimu (sw)

See also

• training
• schooling
• edutainment

References

• education at OneLook Dictionary Search
• education in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• education in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• auctioned, cautioned