Synonyms for education
Another word for education is teaching, educational activity or instruction. Below are 7 synonyms and 30 related words across 5 senses.
Also searched as: educations.
1. noun: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- teaching synonyms
- educational activity
- instruction synonyms
- pedagogy synonyms
- didactics
2. noun: knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
3. noun: the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
4. noun: the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
5. noun: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- training synonyms
- breeding synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- course synonyms
- class synonyms
- course of study synonyms
- higher education
- work-study program
- activity synonyms
- team teaching
- secondary education
- extension synonyms
- continuing education
- extension service
- university extension
- elementary education
- course of instruction
- extracurricular activity
- experience synonyms
- content synonyms
- learning synonyms
- foundation synonyms
- physical education
- mental object
- scholarship synonyms
- cognitive content
- enlightenment
- grounding
- erudition
- learnedness
- encyclopaedism
- encyclopedism
- eruditeness
Education in word games
- Letters
- 9
- Scrabble
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble EDUCATION
- Is EDUCATION a word?
- Words starting with E
Questions people ask
What is another word for education?
You can say teaching, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy or didactics instead of education. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill".
What is the opposite of education?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for education; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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Senses and synonyms from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0); the most common words come first. Browse more on the synonyms and antonyms hub.