Entry Word: education

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another <a teacher who devoted herself to the education of children with special needs>

Synonyms instruction, schooling, teaching, training, tutelage, tutoring

Related Words coaching, conditioning, cultivation, preparation, readying; development, direction, guidance, nurturance, nurturing; edification, enlightenment, improvement

2 the understanding and information gained from being educated <a person whose extensive education was obvious to all who met him>

Synonyms erudition, knowledge, learnedness, learning, scholarship, science

Related Words culture, edification, enlightenment; literacy, reading; bookishness, pedantry

Near Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy