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education
- /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- [ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩]
- /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- [ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩]
- /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/ Canada, US
- [ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃn̩] Canada, US
- /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ Canada, US
- [ˌɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃn̩] Canada, US
- /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/ Canada, US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate.
Morphologically educate + -ion.
noun educations · educashun · educamation
- The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment. For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties, he
- Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction. Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education... Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.
- Upbringing, rearing. I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education.
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