adult education

noun

: continuing education

Examples of adult education in a Sentence

The university offers a popular program of adult education.

Recent Examples on the Web

At least 65,000 students could lose access to after-school or summer programs, and 80,000 people could be cut off from adult education and literacy services, according to estimates by the state Education Department. —Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025

The death toll has risen to 11 following the shooting on Feb. 4 in Örebro Police in Sweden have shared an update on the death toll following a shooting at an adult education school, confirming that at least 11 people have died from the incident. —Becca Longmire, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025

On Monday, Miami District 4 Commissioner Ralph Rosado announced that his office would allocate up to $10,000 to subsidize Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Fast Track to Citizenship courses, offered through the school district’s adult education program. —Miami Herald, 28 July 2025

Paused federal funding for K-12 schools and adult education programs will be released. —Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 28 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1814, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for adult education

• acclimatisation
• acclimatization
• acidification
• actualization
• annualization
• autocorrelation
• autoregulation
• beatification
• beneficiation
• biodegradation
• biotransformation
• bureaucratization