education

See also: éducation, êducâtion, and e-ducation

English[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

(generally jocular) educashun, educamation

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd.jʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- Audio (UK) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tion

Noun[edit]

education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)

(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.
(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[edit]

Related terms[edit]

educate

Translations[edit]

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 (taʕlīm), 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) (śikkha), তালিম (bn) (talim)
Bokyi: kor n' wed
Breton: diorroadurez
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: mmuta
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: pawiatan
Kalmyk: сурһуль (surğulʹ)
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 (ckb) 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 (taʕlīm), ثَقَافَة‎ (ar) f (ṯaqāfa)
Armenian: կրթություն (hy) (krtʿutʿyun)
Bengali: শিক্ষা (bn) (śikkha), 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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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)

References[edit]

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, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

auctioned, cautioned