education

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, tuition, tutelage, tutoring Related Words didactics, pedagogics, pedagogy; higher education, higher learning; 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, literacy, scholarship Related Words culture, edification, enlightenment; reading; bookishness, pedantry Near Antonyms functional illiteracy Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness