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| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
self, abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
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| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | literacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to read |
| Synonyms: | background, cultivation, education, knowledge, learning, proficiency, refinement, scholarship, articulacy, articulateness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, illiteracy |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | science |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | methodical study of part of material world |
| Synonyms: | art, branch, discipline, education, erudition, information, learning, lore, scholarship, skill, system, technique, wisdom, body of knowledge |
| Antonyms: | art |
| Main Entry: | training |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preparation |
| Synonyms: | background, basics, buildup, cultivation, discipline, drill, education, exercise, foundation, groundwork, guidance, indoctrination, instruction, practice, seasoning, teaching, tuition, tutelage, upbringing, workout*, chalk talk, coaching, domestication, grounding, preliminaries, principles, readying, schooling, sharpening, tune-up, warm-up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tutelage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guardianship; teaching |
| Synonyms: | care, custody, education, guidance, instruction, lesson, preparation, protection, supervision, training, tutoring, apprenticeship, coaching, drilling, schooling |
| Main Entry: | tutoring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction |
| Synonyms: | education, guidance, training, tutelage, coaching, tutorial, tutorship |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
| Antonyms: | barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | discipline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regimen, training |
| Synonyms: | conduct, control, cultivation, curb, development, drill, education, exercise, indoctrination, limitation, method, practice, preparation, regulation, restraint, self-control, self-restraint, subordination, will, willpower, domestication, drilling, inculcation, orderliness, self-command, self-government, self-mastery, strictness |
| Antonyms: | chaos, confusion, disorder, disorganization, neglect, negligence, permissiveness |
| Main Entry: | lesson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information taught |
| Synonyms: | assignment, class, drill, education, exercise, instruction, lecture, period, practice, quiz, reading, recitation, study, task, teaching, test, tutoring, chalk talk, coaching, homework, schooling |
| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, readiness |
| Synonyms: | alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, construction, dry run*, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, groundwork, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, qualification, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, study, training, tryout, workout, build-up, getting ready, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, putting in order, readying, schoolwork, substructure |
| Antonyms: | unreadiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scholarship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | ability, awareness, cognition, comprehension, discernment, education, erudition, expertise, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, know-how*, learning, lore, philosophy, wisdom, learnedness, schooling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clear understanding |
| Synonyms: | awareness, clarification, edification, education, enlightenment, information, insight, inspiration, instruction, perception, revelation, teaching |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misconception, misunderstanding, obscurity, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | context, point of view; understanding |
| Synonyms: | angle, approach, aspect, attitude, awareness, comprehension, condition, education, elucidation, enlightenment, example, exemplar, explanation, illustration, information, insight, interpretation, knowledge, model, paragon, slant, standing, vantage point, viewpoint |
| Antonyms: | misconception, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | matriculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | instruction |
| Synonyms: | drill, education, practice, preparation, training |
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